You cannot expect to get full exchange rate, even with PayPal. Today I transferred a payment from PayPal to my business banking account (after trading had closed).

1.1964 PayPal US-> CDN Exchange Rate
1.2244 Actual US-> CDN Exchange Rate
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0.0280 Difference

For a $1000 US purchase, the difference is the conversion amounts to $28.00 CDN (plus whopping $0.50 US PayPal transfer fee). How does it compare with US -> UK conversion?

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Cheers,

Dan
Founder and CEO

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