Hi all, I have just purchased an item on eBay. The currency on eBay was GBP and the payment method was Debit/Credit card processed by Paypal. I paid using my Revolut card, which is registered in Spain. On my Revolut I have EUR and GBP balances. My surpise is that I have been charged in EUR and …

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capital 27 August 2017 00:41 7

MFrances:

Why haven’t I been charged in GBP?

Is there any wrongdoing coming from PayPal?

Option to disable GBP transactions to block dynamic currency conversion Ideas

Many holders of payment cards issued in the UK, including Revolut, have experienced dynamic currency conversion, whereby a merchant converts the transaction currency and amount from the local currency to the currency of the card’s country of issue, in this case to GBP, because Revolut is issued in the UK. This malpractice is particularly prevalent in Spain, where merchants often disingenuously change the transaction currency and amount from EUR to GBP with a markups of up to 7% after the cardho…

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