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PayPal Adds Fees, Sneakily
- patio11 17y agoThere is a quick money-saving tip for anyone who pays freelancers through Paypal. If you are a freelancer, you should tell your employer this. Paypal has a batch interface (Paypal Mass Payment). Payments through the batch interface cost $1 per recipient. The minimum number of recipients is one, and receiving the payment is free to the recipients. You just need to click a link and upload a one-liner text file: email@example.com (tab) 100.00 (tab) USD (tab) any-internal-id-you-want (tab) Totally optional comment goes here. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_batch-payment-overview-outside https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_batch-payment-ove...
- maneesh 17y agoThat's awesome. Thanks.
- jacquesm 17y agoThanks for that tip Patrick, I passed it to a friend of mine that does a fair number of these payments.
- vaksel 17y agothanks for that, I always wondered why I was never charged a paypal fee for some of the payments I got
- sant0sk1 17y agoSo as a payment receipient, does this bypass the regular fees for receiving payments?
- onreact-com 17y agoEver tried moneybookers.com ? The charge less and are more secure.