Merchant Fees | Ramblings of an e-trader

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Merchant Fees

A friend made a purchase at an online store based in Singapore just yesterday. The store only accepts payment by PayPal for international transactions. Unfortunately, the store charges service fee of 3.5% which is PayPal fee charged on Seller for accepting payment.

Now, I know that most of us Sellers would add this fee on top of our merchandise because I think that PayPal does not allow us to add this fee on our charges towards our buyers. At least, as far as I know, this isn't allowed by PayPal and eBay.

Well, my friend went ahead with the purchase nonetheless even though it would have been cheaper to take a bus down to Singapore to shop for it. However, I did not ask if the store allowed personal pick up. LOL

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