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Re:Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign by StavrosK on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:43PM (#12851149)
Its fees are just sheer theft. I just used it for collecting money from friends for a small paintball event I want to organize, and it kept 10%! Seriously, people sent 5 euros, and I got 4.48, for no reason I can see.

Not to mention that currency conversion is a complete ripoff. I avoid PayPal like the plague.

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Re:Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign by eropple on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:45PM (#12851438)
Paypal's fees are 2.9% + $0.30 USD, which is pretty standard among commercial-level (and you were using it commercially, otherwise they'd have sent it as a gift) processors that don't require a merchant account. Braintree is 2.9% + $0.30 USD; Stripe is also 2.9% + $0.30 USD if you're under $1m/year.
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Re:Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign by StavrosK on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @07:28AM (#12853675)
I don't know anything about commercial stuff. All I know was that I wanted my friends to send me $5 so I could pay the paintball guy, and PayPal kept 10% of that.
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