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This prohibition prevents sellers from passing PayPal's processing costs to customers through additional charges at the point of payment.
As a user accepting PayPal payments, you are prohibited from adding any surcharge or fee to transactions because PayPal is the payment method.
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"You agree that you will not impose a surcharge or any other fee for accepting PayPal as a payment method.Excerpt from PayPal's User Agreement
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This prohibition prevents sellers from passing PayPal's processing costs to customers through additional charges at the point of payment.
As a user accepting PayPal payments, you are prohibited from adding any surcharge or fee to transactions because PayPal is the payment method.
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