No one is going to be reporting Diablo 3 sales as taxable income!Originally Posted by Horcsog
Shhhhhh, be quite ; )
False. PayPal charges you when you receive money transactions from other PayPal users. They may not charge you with this, as they may view it more like loading your account, but if someone transfers money to you, there is a 2.9% fee + $.30. That's what is in the US. https://cms.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marke...en_US#8. Fees.
Some people say:
Diablo 3 is exluded from the normal paypal fees, Blizzard have done some sort of deal with them so the 15% cash out fee covers everything. There are no additional paypal fees.
This is what we have been told from blizzard sources.
But... the FAQ tells a different story
http://eu.battle.net/support/en/arti...ctionality#q18
How do I “cash out” from the real-money auction house?
Note that the process of sending proceeds to a third-party payment service will be subject to applicable fees charged by Blizzard and the third-party payment service. Also, any proceeds from the sale of items in the real-money auction house that have been sent to the player’s Battle.net Balance will not be transferrable to the third-party payment service account.
So we still do not know for certain if its just 15% cashout or 15% cashout + paypal fee's.
You're not recieving a "payment". Paypal is not acting as a payment procesor for you. Blizzard handles the entire transaction, they just send you some money via Paypal afterwards. You are receiving a transfer from Blizzard. There is a Bashiok post on the froum that says after the 15% fee there is no additional cost related to paypal. The FAQ seems to hedge it's bets, there is plenty of opportunity for Paypal to charge you for something, but it will not be for receiving payments. You are not a "seller", you are not selling anything through Paypal.
See https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?c...keting_us/fees and see "transfering money" and "accepting payments".
I fully expect Blizzard is paying the "Small fee of 0.5% to 2% (depends on destination) when fully funded with bank account or PayPal balance." for transerfing outside the US in some cases. That cost is to Blizzard and will be part of what makes up the 15% they charge to send money to you through Paypal.
The post http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...0907?page=4#74
PayPal will not charge any fees for transfers to them. You'll pay a 15% transfer fee to move any funds to your PayPal account, and then whatever you do with the money after that is between you and them. But the transfer to PayPal is 15%, and that's it.
Some people might get into trouble
At least someone admits you'll make enough money for it to be taxableSome people might get into troublebetter than all these doomsayers talking about $1 a day profits.
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