To be honest the fee is pretty minimal. It's a few percent and then you can print shipping labels at a discount when doing regular "goods and services" transactions. Seems like not a big problem. PayPal provides a good service.
Nope. Just used bank account and they still charged me $4.99
Yes, for international this is almost standard, a few countries are $2.99 flat rate now (even on a $1 transfer)
At the beginning of the month funded by balance was still free, and funded by a bank account was only 0.05%, which was very cheap.
When everybody catches up to this story, and believes me, perhaps we can discuss more? Anybody ordering seeds from Borneo soon? You will find out, a $10 seed purchase is now $14.99 with the added $4.99 fee for Malaysia.
I do not know about the merchant fees, usually I think international used to be 4.49% + $0.30 or something, I am not sure what it is now. This would be cheaper than F&F gift transfer if those rates are still the same.
So if sellers in Borneo are asking for gift transfer, the transaction costs more than a merchant invoice. Let's keep the discussion going. Why pay a greedy company more for nothing.