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are there extra fees for a paypal premier account?
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summary: the fees used to differ but no longer do. fees are the same. if you have a personal account, feel free to upgrade it to premier to get access to more features. longer answer: the two account types used to differ but that changed a few years ago (maybe circa 2011?). paypal wants person-to-person payments to be free (except where they must pass along credit card charges or else they would loose their shirt) but wants to charge merchants for receiving payments. originally paypal required merchants to have premier (or business) accounts, and charged fees for payments made to those account types. personal accounts had significant limitations on receiving payments, but did not pay fees upon receiving payments.  eventually paypal decoupled the question of "is this a person-to-person payment or a payment to a merchant for goods and services?" from the paypal account type. so now the same account can receive both a p2p payment (e.g. splitting lunch costs), on which it will not pay fees, and can receive a payment for goods or services e.g. from a web checkout, on which it will pay fees. regardless of the account type.
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