[LRUG] Receiving a one-off payment from the U.S.

[Michael Pavling]

On 9 December 2011 11:25, Spencer Turner <spencer at heavi.es> wrote:
>> * For bank transfers, the bulk of the fees are paid by the sender, but
>> with PayPal, all the fees are paid by the recipient.
>
> This seems to be the reason US client(s) want to pay by paypal...You, pay
> the fee. (and you'll probably loose out on Paypal's conversion rates) so you
> need to include fees and currency conversion rates in your charges if at all
> possible.

Not necessarily. When sending money (as opposed to using Paypal to pay
for goods on an online store) you can choose to send as a "gift" and
the sender can include the fees so the recipient gets the bottom-line
amount.