Just had a buyer trying to send me payment as gift. Both of us are in the UK.

Money came through in dollars but when I tried to draw it out it was short of the amount  in pounds I was expecting, maybe currency conversion fee.

Anybody else had anything similar, I've have Paypal payments via discogs today that were fine and in pounds.

 

Edited December 11, 20177 yr by Kegsy

That very same thing happened to me recently as well. 

I was quite puzzled by it but there doesn't seem to be any logic explanation for it. 

My guess was the buyer had Paypal credit in U.S. dollars (even though he lived in the U.K.) but that's just a guess.

I bought a record from someone who lives in the UK - and they wanted paying in US dollars? I guess they might have been in the states?

 

Pete

I had something similar to this a while ago.

 

a payment from Europe came in dollars and converted to a bit under what it should have.

 

its not something that happens often I just let it go.

 

i think I asked on here at the time.

From memory but I might be wrong you have to set your primary currency as gbp and sender also has to select gbp to send if it’s not the default

It's sorted  now buyer managed to work out the problem after I refunded the original dollar amount.  I will have a look at my account set up though just in case. Never had problems before. 

13 minutes ago, Kegsy said:

It's sorted  now buyer managed to work out the problem after I refunded the original dollar amount.  I will have a look at my account set up though just in case. Never had problems before. 

I've reset mine. From now on I'm paying in;

 

 

Do Paypal get involved if an item was paid for using them ... but the item has failed to materialise (my ongoing 2 month old dispute is with Royal Mail).

2 minutes ago, Roburt said:

Do Paypal get involved if an item was paid for using them ... but the item has failed to materialise (my ongoing 2 month old dispute is with Royal Mail).

Here you go Roburt.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/first-dispute

12 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

I've reset mine. From now on I'm paying in;

 

 

I wondered what these 'Bitcoins' looked like.

2 hours ago, Roburt said:

Do Paypal get involved if an item was paid for using them ... but the item has failed to materialise (my ongoing 2 month old dispute is with Royal Mail).

You could just have claimed off PayPal. Why are Royal Mail playing games? .

2 hours ago, Roburt said:

Do Paypal get involved if an item was paid for using them ... but the item has failed to materialise (my ongoing 2 month old dispute is with Royal Mail).

Paypal and ebay in my experience would side with a buyer in a case like this.

 

you just open a dispute and then its all on the seller to sort out.

Many thanks for the replies.