{"id":3512,"date":"2010-05-28T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T02:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2011-05-20T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:44:44","slug":"how-to-avoid-paypal-fees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/28\/how-to-avoid-paypal-fees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid Paypal Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are sending money to someone via Paypal, you can now avoid paying their 3% + $0.30 fee.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that you had to receive the money at a &#8220;Personal&#8221; Paypal account to avoid paying fees. <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/how-to-avoid-paypal-fees\/\">I wrote about this in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s easier. When you are sending money to your friend or whoever, just be sure to select that you are sending the money as a &#8220;Personal&#8221; charge and not a &#8220;Purchase&#8221;. See the image.<\/p>\n<p>As long as you aren&#8217;t funding your account with a credit card, there are no fees :-). That&#8217;s right, <strong>no fees to send and no fees to receive<\/strong>. This is how Paypal was when it first started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/avoid-paypal-fees.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3514\" title=\"avoid paypal fees\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/avoid-paypal-fees-268x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/avoid-paypal-fees-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/avoid-paypal-fees-179x200.png 179w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/avoid-paypal-fees.png 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are sending money to someone via Paypal, you can now avoid paying their 3% + $0.30 fee. It used to be that you had to receive the money at a &#8220;Personal&#8221; Paypal account to avoid paying fees. I wrote about this in 2008. Now it&#8217;s easier. When you are sending money to your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}