Bitch and moan.

[gemfyre]

I think banks and similar services are just here to make it impossible for small timers to sell overseas. I'm in Australia.

I'd love to sell my jewellery to people everywhere. But there seems to be no method of payment that will charge me less fees than the money I make.

Cash in foreign currency - $7.50 exchange fee (this was free until a few years back).
Money Order - I believe these are something like $20 to exchange - ridiculous.
Paypal - more fees than the money I'd be making.
Don't have and don't want a credit card - although I'm not sure if it would help me anyway.

Is there ANY way to do this and not get charged up the wazoo so much that I'm actually losing money to fees rather than making a profit?

Comments

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

keep the money in US$, and then when you want to buy something from ebay you dont worry about having to convert the currency :)

however, thats assuming you buy lots of stuff from ebay in US$

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I used to do that.

But at the moment I need money I can spend right away here in Perth.

[pooxs.livejournal.com]

yeah, thought that might be the issue :(

get people to give you cash and you pay for their ebay purchases?