Ebay / PayPal and credit card payment | Payment processing on eBay

karneol_33 · 2025-12-11T20:46:47.744000Z

Hello everyone, I bought something in the USA. Now I wanted to pay with PayPal, link my credit card there and thus pay in USD. Because my credit card converts at a much better rate than PayPal. This has happened to me before, where the process ran automatically and I then paid in euros, which was significantly more expensive. I wanted to avoid that and deactivated the option (I read somewhere on the internet) "payment by direct debit" that applies to eBay in PayPal. Now I don't know whether that's related, but eBay won't let me complete a PayPal payment with the credit card on file. But I also can't buy directly on eBay using the credit card. It works with other merchants, but I only tested a smaller amount. (at least directly, I haven't tried PayPal + credit card). Could this deactivated option be the cause, or is there another problem here? I used to be able to pay like this on eBay..

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