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Re: Doh! Canada is expensive...
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lugnet.loc.ca
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Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:10:15 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.ca, Tim Culberson writes:
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> I finally got around to sending in my LUGNET membership fee today. I
> got a US$10 money order and a US stamp - my cost in CAD dollars?
> $19.49! Ouch!
I sent my membership in recently, too. I used Paypal - they now accept
international accounts. I made my fee $13, to make it just under $CDN 20.
BUT Paypal adds a 2.6% (or 2.9%?) + $US 0.30 as a surcharge on international
transactions. This pushes my total cost up to about $CDN 20.75 depending
on what my credit card company uses as an exchange rate.
Jeff J
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | RE: Doh! Canada is expensive...
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| Hello, My opinion is that these Paypal fees are a sham .... if I buy something from LEGO s@h or anywhere else in the US, the amount I pay is the amount that shows on my credit card. Paypal should at least be up front about it and show these fees (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
| | | Re: Doh! Canada is expensive...
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| (...) Yeah my membership money would have been in about a month ago if paypal was any good. I signed up for a paypal account just days after it went international and went through the whole process of verifying my credit card and it worked (...) (23 years ago, 2-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Doh! Canada is expensive...
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| I finally got around to sending in my LUGNET membership fee today. I got a US$10 money order and a US stamp - my cost in CAD dollars? $19.49! Ouch! (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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