How are transaction fees paid?

[lr281]

Hi,

Someone is sending me money on PayPal and I understand that I have to pay fees to receive this, but this person is saying the payment won't go through until I pay the fees? I would've thought the fees are just deducted from the payment I'm supposed to receive?
I also received a request on PayPal for the fee money from some random account. I can't see any more details about this request apart from the name and email but the name is not the same as the name of the person sending me money. 
Is this normal or a scam??

[kernowlass · Accepted solution]

@lr281 

SCAM.

You never pay any upfront fee as a seller.

Ignore scammers that send fake Paypal emails telling you that you need to pay an upfront fee to verify/upgrade to a business account/or any other reason to accept a payment.

You would certainly never have to send funds especially via another payment processor/bitcoins/ or tokens/vouchers of any sort.

Any fee is auto deducted by Paypal at the same instant the remainder of the payment is credited to your Paypal account balance.

No funds in your balance = you have not yet been paid, even pending/held payments will still show in your Paypal account activity.

[lr281]

Ok that makes a lot of sense, definitely won’t be paying any ‘fees’. Thank you so much!

[Grrrrrrrhhh]

Same here