Paypal help???

Hey guys, quick question.

I have never received a fee for receiving paypal gift payments until a week or 2 ago.

I was paid $300 as a gift from a friend. However $7.50 was taken out in fees?

Tonight I was paid $280 as a gift from the same friend. And again a $7.02 was taken out as fees.

Now I receive regular payments from this friend. And I have received 2 smaller payments in between these larger ones of $25.00 and $50.00 with no fees taken out at all.

I also know that these were paid as a gift as there is photographic evidence.

Has anyone has this or know why I have been charged a fee for accepting these gift payments.

if they have paid by credit card a fee is payable to paypal.... there is a check box next to the fee to indicate if the payee pays the fee or not....

looks like they had it unchecked so the receiver pays the fee

Chef said:

if they have paid by credit card a fee is payable to paypal.... there is a check box next to the fee to indicate if the payee pays the fee or not....

looks like they had it unchecked so the receiver pays the fee

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Spot on.

Thanks guys, I've just got off the phone with paypal.

They were actually very helpful, my friend for some reason over the 2 larger payments actually did pay as goods even though she meant to pay as a gift. I don't know how this happened as we have screenshots that show otherwise but anyway, paypal have refunded the fees to my account.

I was very impressed with that.

Thanks for the help guys.

Doesn't receiving too many gift payments also incur a fee? Eg sbf