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Ask Me Anything, Edition 9

Ron K. Jeffries followed up my post about PayPal’s new fees with a question: Are Google or Amazon services cheaper in terms of transaction fees? Google and Amazon both offer tools to help you accept payments. However, they’re set up a little differently than PayPal, focusing primarily on sellers rather than freelancers. The fees are [...]

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A Problem With PayPal: Don’t Pay Any Extra Fees

Lately, even my biggest clients have paid via PayPal. It’s an easy way to handle payments for freelancers, allowing you to accept payments without needing to wait for a check or hand out your banking information. Today, though, I’ve heard some worries about PayPal from several freelancers: seemingly overnight, the payment processing service added a [...]

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Tax Write Offs: Paypal Fees

It seems like every client these days wants to pay me via Paypal, which, unfortunately, takes a nasty little bite out every payment. While a dollar here and 75 cents there doesn’t seem like much, it adds up pretty quickly. The thought of just plain not getting my full rate just peeves me. But there [...]

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