the buyer wants to be paid in us dollars and we are australian dollars how does it work

[enigmabear]

Not sure, what do you need to pay the buyer for?

[davewil1964]

They send you an invoice, or you click 'pay now' on the item.

Paypal takes your $A and convert them to $US and pays the seller. The amount you pay will be a bit different to the estimate (a couple of percent usually) as eBay's converted price is an estimate, whereas Paypal use the conversion rate that applies at the time of the transaction.

[lyndal1838]

And paypal builds it's fees into the conversion rate also....it is all one payment unlike the bank who charges the fees as a seperate amount.

[collect247]

I always thought that a seller is the one that gets paid?

[thesoulyearns]

I think in PayPal you can also send money in various currencies.

[lyndal1838]

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@thesoulyearns wrote:

I think in PayPal you can also send money in various currencies.

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Yes, you can "send money" in various currencies but you can only pay a seller in the currency that the item is listed in.  You have to pay in the currency of the site that the seller is using.

The Send Money function is more often used to send personal funds, not for ebay transactions.

[thesoulyearns]

Yeah, I just wanted to say that, just incase they wanted to send the money that way for whatever reason.

[chriscam63au8]

just asking

[davewil1964]

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@chriscam63au8 wrote:

just asking

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Just answering