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Hi all ! Man I am angry ! Recently we started (with a little help from a friend) accepting Paypal as a way of payment - first payment was sent and he (our friend) transferred it to his bank (so that he can sedn it to us) - he is located in (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Welcome to the wonderful world of Paypal... I had to open a German bank account, which costs me about $3 a month so I could use the service. You are off best by waiting with transferring till your at least above $100 or you'll lose a big part (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) But it works with Netherlands now too (your're form Netherlands right), but drawback are those "excange rates" - which they also appy for Germany, right? ..I knew something would go wrong - it was just "too cheap to be true" ! (...) $100 (...) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Haven't tried anything here... a German bank account was pretty handy anyway since I do lots of business with German people and this way I avoid having to ship cash or cheques/money orders. And at the time I needed a solution for my Paypal (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) < SNIP> (...) <SNIP> How difficult is it to open a German account from another country? Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) AFAIK impossible... from what they told me because of banking regulations/laws (to prevent laundering) you need to drop by the bank, with a valid ID to sign up. After that all can be done over the Internet (as I do... ) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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"Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net> wrote in message news:GEtxtG.210@lugnet.com... (...) No, the thing is - they never mentioned anything about not beeing able to transfer US $ to European bank accounts so they just transferred Euros with (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I found another discussion regarding "our issue" on Lugent.market.theory... I guess you know "Brickhead" - this is what he wrote (to Paypal) : (...) fraud He is German .. so they took him 6% - as much as they took from Gerard & me, so I just don't (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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"Jan-Albert van Ree" <javanree@vanree.net> wrote in message news:GEtxtG.210@lugnet.com... (...) No, the thing is - they never mentioned anything about not beeing able to transfer US $ to European bank accounts so they just transferred Euros with (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Let me re-calculate then... problem is I do my math in guilders, so if I'm off on the exchange rates for a few cents I get 3 times the error (US$ -> Euro -> DM -> Guilder) OK here we go Euro exchange rate last week according to paypal: $1 = (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) See ... You probably haven't noticed when converting smaller anounts but when you are supposed to get like 400 $ and get around 378 it is a loss ! (...) me (...) Sure while for EU as well as for most non EU banks all Euro currencies are (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Dej'an <dejan.pavlovic@zg.hinet.hr> wrote in message news:GEsHCL.G3n@lugnet.com... (...) [snip] I have been thinking about this for some time. I have tried to get myself an paypal account, but even that I am a *Danish* citisenze, I cannot get myself (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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