Re: Surcharge Paypal users

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[quote="burt"]http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_payments-outside

Scroll down to V. No surcharges, note the piece in [b]bold[/b].

No Surcharges. Under Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express regulations and the laws of several states, including California, merchants may not charge a fee to the buyer for accepting credit card payments (often called a "surcharge"). You agree that you will not impose a surcharge or any other fee for accepting PayPal as payment. This restriction does not prevent you from imposing a handling fee in connection with the sale of goods or services, as long as the handling fee does not operate as a surcharge (in other words, the handling fee for transactions paid through PayPal may not be higher than the handling fee for transactions paid through other payment methods). [b]Nor does this restriction apply to Pound-denominated transactions by sellers residing in the United Kingdom listing items for sale on a UK-based website. [/b]

In effect if you are UK resident, with a UK-based website, selling in UKP, it is 100% legal to add a surcharge for paying by Paypal.  Thats good news for UK shop owners.  

Now all I need to do is update the Paypal IPN to add a % surcharge...[/quote]

Yes you are absaloutly correct about the UK surcharge however you have missed out one vital peice of information. You must by UK law State on your site in plain view that you infact impose a Surcharge.