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Old 03-19-2021, 08:53 PM
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I've had a personal account since PayPal started, as well as a Business account. The personal account, at first, you could not take a payment funded with a credit card, period. A few years ago, I believe, there was an option to accept the payment and pay a fee, but you had a choice.

That choice is now gone. If someone pays you with Goods and Services and not F/F then PayPal just deducts the fee, no option to decline.

And now, the new screen defaults all payments to G & S unless you click the Change button and change to F/F.

I'm just putting this out there as 3 people in the past week have paid me thinking they were sending F/F and had no idea they were sending as G &S.

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Originally Posted by notfast View Post
I’ve read this multiple times and I’m still confused.

If you use a credit card to pay via friends and family, you pay a fee as the buyer/sender.

Goods does not charge a fee to send but the seller will pay ~3%, no matter if you pay via balance, bank account or credit card.

I’ve had a personal paypal account for 10+ years and I’ve never had to “claim” money.
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