UK Paypal account problems with US address
 

I have a UK paypal account that I wanted to add my UK credit card to. Unfortunately I am unable to add a card with a non UK address. Has anyone managed to do this? If I use my US paypal, it wants to make payment in dollars.

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Ours is US-based, but surely it will want to use whatever address is linked to the card?

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Exactly the problem, my UK card is linked to my US address. Paypal UK does not allow you to add a card with a non UK address.

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Makes sense I guess.

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It may default to USD, but you can certainly change that to GBP. Just select the dropdown under the payment amount to change the currency.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/attac...1&d=1489691621

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I think the problem was that with my US account, the vendor wanted to bill me in dollars. THey converted from GBP, billed me on my UK card in dollars and that got converted back to GBP. When I used UK paypal everything goes through in GBP

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I have a paypal france account with us address and a couple of us cards on it,no probs at all. Everything goes through in dollars. So its possible.

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:huh:
Contradictory information to that from PayPal:
Can I change my PayPal address to another country?
No.Due to banking regulations, you can not change your address to a country that is different from the country you used when you opened your account. If you're moving abroad, you’ll need to close your existing account and open a new account. If you maintain residences in 2 countries, you can have 2 PayPal accounts as long as only one is a Business account.




https://www.paypal.com/us/selfhelp/a...ountry-FAQ1434

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It is not only a problem with PayPal. Amazon, Apple etc. all have similar restrictions to prevent credit card fraud basically.

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I have two PayPal accounts for the US/ UK, using different email addresses and country-based bank accounts. I use them to transfer small sums of money between my accounts, for sending family gifts and the like (I'm aware the FX rate will suck but the convenience outweighs the penalty on the amounts concerned).

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I ended up closing my UK account and recreating a US one for my US debit/credit card.

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^^ This. I phoned PayPal UK to shift my account to the US and they categorically refused citing that I *must* close and create an account on the US side.

I left my UK account open and connected to my UK bank account, and opened a US paypal account connected to my US bank account.

It works well for buying gifts in the UK, and sending it to family and friends. It's effectively the only thing I do with it.

On the eBay front (as the companies were till recently connected), eBay were only too happy to switch region and allow me to add my US address.etc - you have to go through their live help though as its not something you can do yourself.

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I have never been able to switch my xbox live account fully to the US. The movies and games in the store are from the UK site, but my currency is in dollars.

I think the only option with paypal is to use a UK address for my credit card in order to be able to add it to the account.

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Really? I was able to switch mine over about a month or so after I landed here. I put in the region change on the XBox site and when I rebooted my console all my UK apps had gone and I was in the marketplace for the US store. Games I'd purchased could be freely downloaded from the US xbox store - never bought any movies though.

It did ask me to provide a US bank account as it had invalidated my UK AMEX.

I never bothered to check if the DVD players region changed - I got an XBox one shortly after moving here, so the 360 hasn't been touched since.

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Amazon (UK) were fine with it (thankfully).

Where else am I gonna get my Gerry Anderson fix?