Hello everyone! I have a question that I don't think has been asked before, at least 15 minutes of google led to nothing similar. Please excuse my illiteracy if the question seems silly!
I live in Australia, and my relatives overseas are willing to pay for some items I am required for a university project that I couldn't afford right now, due to university study. I do work during the holidays so I can pay them back. However the problem I have encountered was as the following:
1. Filled in correct details, and paypal rejected the payment.
2. I changed the location to the card's country of origin, and it was accepted.
3. Currency was still in Australian dollars.
Basically what I had to do, was to alter the country. However, the shipping address is still a local Australian address, I'm not sure about the country however. I simply typed out the full address -- completed with country, state, suburb, street and postal code. I looked in the webpage and everything actually seemed fine, even the country shows up correctly.
My premature questions are the following:
1. Is this a good method to purchase items? I am very inclined to believe that paypal/ebay blocked my payment for an obvious reason.
2. If the method is bad, are there any way around this? I need some items to fund a university capstone project that I will have to work on next year.
3. I do plan on to acquire a dual currency card in that country, and I would want to use it in Australia. Transfers are obviously a huge no due to the massive fees. $2 is fine, $20 is 3 meals in my book.
4. Silly question, but in which currency will the seller receive the funds in? I'm sure it is Australian dollars, but I want to make sure. I have sold items on ebay of course, but never have I encountered someone else with the same problem listed above.
5. If so, what if I want to buy a gift for someone overseas? Many sellers, me included, enforce this "strictly shipping to paypal linked address" policy. While some sellers are nice and will fill in the receiver's address, I doubt others are. I know I won't be, unless the item isn't worth much. I do believe this question can be found somewhere, sorry if it has been asked before!
Many thanks!
Daniel
