@lyndal1838 wrote:

I was under the impression that paypal no longer refund the 30cent part of the payment even when a full refund is issued.


I believe that to be true too.

The 30-cents is permanently spent once there is a payment transaction recorded.

 

However, as I said above I have heard of at least one instance where a seller asked PayPal for credit when multiple individual transactions have been made where a single one could have easily been done. But that was some time back now, so maybe they are not even doing this any more.