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shrike4242 said:

(Update: 6/15/2016)

• Friends & Family/Gifting via Paypal will be allowed for all digital transactions (Digital games, codes, currency, etc).
• Friends & Family/Gifting via Paypal is still prohibited for physical items. You can not force the buyer to pay your fees either. You have the option to choose another form of payment if you do not want to accept Paypal or remove your trade post.
• Buyers can leave negative feedback if seller accepts Paypal(physical items only) but forces you to use friends & family/gifting only. Retaliatory negative feedback from the seller will be remove upon request from a moderator.
• Sellers that consistently have negative feedback due to this reason will be suspended from the trade forum.

Spoiler

Recently, there's been a trend to send Personal Paypal payments as a gift to other CAGs for the purchase of items. This is done to prevent the charging of fees to the recipient for the Paypal payment. Unfortunately, this is against Paypal's User Agreement, in section 8, under Fees.

Paypal User Agreement:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/UserAgreement_full&locale.x=en_US

Specifically:

If you're making a purchase for an item, the payment has to be sent as a Purchase payment and not a Personal payment. If a payment is sent for a purchase as a Personal payment, Paypal won't do anything for dealing with a chargeback, so it's for the sender's protection to make sure payments are sent as Purchase payments. If you file a dispute with Paypal over a purchase and the payment is a Personal payment, they won't do anything to resolve it.

Paypal fees are easy to calculate, and there's a number of website that show both sides of the transactions for money sent and money received. One I used to frequently (http://www.rolbe.com/paypal.htm)is no longer online due to the owner passing away. Try using one of these instead:

http://thefeecalculator.com/
http://www.gregledet.net/ppfcm.html
http://salecalc.com/paypal

It shows how much needs to be sent to have the recipient receive a certain amount of money, as well as how much the recipient will receive and how much the Paypal fees are.

In the negotiations for the price of an item or items, please work out who should pay the Paypal fees in working out the terms of the deal, though Paypal obviously collects the fee off the recipient's side of the transaction. The Paypal calculator site above is very easy to see how much the sender should be sending to have the recipient net out an amount after fees.

There's also other payment methods that can be used in lieu of Paypal, as well.

EDIT:
As we've gone through the user agreement multiple on the Personal Payment issue, it was brought up again that the payee on Paypal payments can't surcharge for the use of Paypal fees on the payer. The payee pays the fees on Paypal for Purchase payments.

No surcharge section of the Paypal UA:

You cannot explicitly charge Paypal fees as a surchargees:</strong>

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