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I've just got an Argos Mastercard. I've only been using it since the end of last week and so have only a couple of transactions, one of them being a PayPal payment for an ebay purchase I made and another which has appeared being a Foreign Exchange Fee for roughly 3% of the Paypal amount.

Does anyone know if Argos charge a fee for purchases from a different country, even when in GBP? The only thing I can think of is PayPal are registered in Luxembourg, but my purchase was on ebay UK from a UK seller in GBP.

It's only 19p and so not a big thing I'll just move Paypal back to another card, I was trying make this my main purchase card as it's got "Moneyback", well Argos vouchers but that's close enough.

Thanks.

hiya


I've got the argos mastercard too and have been charged around 3 this month for transactions using paypal

I've just changed my paypal to my current account

NN

Seems a bit strange for it to be happening with Argos as it's a Mastercard. There was (or maybe still is) an issue with AMEX cards being debited in USD through Paypal but AMEX were refunding the charges to cards.

Perhaps it's worth speaking to Argos about it to see if you can get it refunded?

You're not the only one to have noticed though:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=14988965&postcount=9

It all depends on how PayPal processed the transaction. Argos (or whoever administrates their cards), only charge for what PayPal shows on that transaction.