thanking you alot prohizle for this

i cant get an account signed up it just doesn't let me

It is not in the sticky, so please bare with me.

Now, before the last few weeks, I have always used my mums creditcard/paypal in order to purchase things online.

In the past I have bought a few things from America, and never really worried about conversion rates.

Now in my debit card account I have something like 320/330 dollars, in the situation of buying something like Astros, I would almost be clearing out my account. When using my mums account, I never gave two shits about the conversion rate, I would just pay for it, jump on XE, see how many Aussie dollars it totaled, and give that to my mum.

However, if i was to buy astros, i would be using most of the money!

QUESTION:

What conversion rate do Paypal use?

The one on XE at the time when the purchase is made?

REASON:

Being overdrawn* is a ****, I accidently went overdrawn a couple of months ago, and it cost me 100 dollars.

*Where you are using a debit card with a savings account, and you spend more money than you have on your card (Bank lends you the money, but charges you for it).

pretty sure paypal use there own conversion rate.... if not then go of you bank/ building society's conversion rate

eve nthen they will be very similar.. .only cents apart

I thought it said on the Paypal the conversion rate? When I bought Kontrol Freeks it did for me anyway.

You probably won't specifically find out what Paypal's conversion rate is. Nonetheless, knowing how much you're going to get out of $330 is always a good thing.

My Account>Overview>Currency conversion

Thanks fellas, exactly the answers i was looking for.
Cheers

Question : I am just about to buy my Astro A40s right, so in my Paypal account, I had about 160 from the sale of my Trittons on eBay, and I transferred another 160 from my account that is linked! However, I don't think this is going to be enough, and it will need to transfer money for my card account into my Paypal account once again, having to wait another 3-5 days.

This is not a credit card, it is a debit card, so sometimes payments can take up to 3-5 days.

Is it best to transfer more money? Or just wait for Paypal to withdraw money from my linked account?

Cheers Wiz

thanks so much

i linked by debit card to my paypal account for a year now and so far i have no complaint about the service. other than being free, i can really say it's a hassle-free payment system as virtually almost all sites now allow paypal payments.
way to go paypal.

dont have 2 be 18 rofl