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Re: Three New Merchants are now up-and-running with Bit-Pay
by
aq
on 11/08/2011, 16:17:13 UTC
So it looks like you have other hidden fees...
Good Luck


Man... what hidden fees? It's dead simple:

Bit-pay Bitcoin to Bitcoin is 1%. Paypal USD to USD is 3% (or 5% if it's less than $2).
Bit-pay Bitcoin to USD is 3%. Paypal USD to other is 5.5% (or 7.5% if it's less than $2).

And since they convert USD prices to bitcoins, they have to deal with market fluctuation. The other day the bitcoin price dropped from $12 to $10 in less than 5 minutes. That's ~20%.

They are the only ones providing such service. Prices could be more competitive if there were alternatives, but I don't think they are expensive.

As 3-1=2 apparently isn't oblivious to guys with tons of knowledge in "cc merchant charges", maybe it is legitimate to call them hidden fees   Tongue