liudr:
In fact paypal was playing its tactics to direct me to transfer cash to them with my bank. I made the credit card payment and I didn't see additional charge on my card. The amount requested was in USD anyway, as the seller reminded me. Just look at their chart, 80 pixels for $142 and 66 pixels for $138. That ought to represent the actual 3% difference really well! Plus their lame color scheme trying to make you stay away from gray buttons. Shame on paypal.
I've made at least a couple of two or four hundred if not more pay pal transactions over maybe 10 years? I use credit card maybe 80% of the time and direct withdraw from a linked checking account the other 20% of the time. I've never seen a transaction fee added by either PP, or my CC company, or the seller, but again I don't recall ever purchasing anything not stated in U.S. dollar amounts.
And yes PP has often made it a little more difficult or time consuming to select CC over linked checking account but that is to be expected because someone (the seller or PP or maybe both share) is definitely paying the CC a fee for the transaction. All in all I've been very pleased with PP and the service and convenience they have given me. I know there are a lot of PP haters out in the world but I think most of them are sellers that have more restrictions and rules to follow then simple purchases using PP have to deal with.
Lefty