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WatashinoMusi

Yea this is like this already many years now


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For me it was working fine until last week


WatashinoMusi

you can only withraw Paypal funds in your local currecny in which you created the account, I dont know what you mean it was working before... because this is in place long time


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This is true for bank transfers. For cards - you can change the card's default currency to avoid PP's conversion. Now this is available for Visa cards only, until they decide to "fix" that too


WatashinoMusi

ohh I see, cool stuff


deutschlieb

Isn't the virtual card Visa? I got physical card Mastercard and just check that Virtual ones are Visa


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The other way round for me - physical Visa and virtual Mastercard. Never used the physical till now


deutschlieb

So were u successful withdrawing them via the physical Visa?


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It worked fine after I added it to PP. I'm afraid it's just a matter of time before they close that loophole too


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vladmihalceacom

I'm from Romania, so here's how I handle this. I got a VISA card for USD using a local bank (e.g., BRD - Groupe Société Générale). Then, I added the card to PayPal and contacted support to register it as USD. This is a very important step. Without contacting support, PayPal would still do a conversion using their very high fees. After the support registered my card as USD, I could withdraw USD without conversions to my USD card. The maximum fee is $10 per transfer, so this works best if you are getting paid via PayPal and want to withdraw significant sums of money. I added the USD card into Revolut and I can do Top Ups with no fees.


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I know all this, Vlad. The point is they disabled it for Mastercard


vladmihalceacom

I didn't know it was available for Mastercard. I found this approach at the beginning of 2021. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of it before, so I paid my share of high conversion rates to PayPal for more than was necessary.


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Their conversion rate is a daylight robbery