Using a US Dollar credit card from Canada

[tonnerbeer]

I have a US Dollar account with my Canadian Bank for which I have a US Dollar credit card. Whenever I make a purchase on EBay in US Dollars, the charges to my bank have been converted to Canadian Dollars and then my bank converts the Canadian Dollars back to US Dollars for payment against my US Dollar card.  Fees are charged for each conversion.

How can I prevent the unnecessary conversions.    As an aside, isn't this rather unethical if not illegal?

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@tonnerbeer wrote:

I have a US Dollar account with my Canadian Bank for which I have a US Dollar credit card. Whenever I make a purchase on EBay in US Dollars, the charges to my bank have been converted to Canadian Dollars and then my bank converts the Canadian Dollars back to US Dollars for payment against my US Dollar card.  Fees are charged for each conversion.

How can I prevent the unnecessary conversions.    As an aside, isn't this rather unethical if not illegal?

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Can't say for certain but I can make some guesses..........

Probably if you go through checkout on .ca it defaults to CA Dollars, are you making the purchases on .com or .ca?

It's possible PayPal is not recognizing your credit card as being denominated in US Dollars since it is issued by a Canadian bank and not a "real" US card.

[tonnerbeer]

I know what is happening...I just want to know how to make it stop. Contacting EBay directly with the question proved useless - the agent simply redirected me to PayPal (which, of course, is OWNED by EBay). The PayPal resolution center has only a limited number of generic "resolutions" for issues that PayPal will deal with. Unfortunately, my issue is not one of them. I was unable to speak to anyone at PayPal - every attempt landed me at the doorstep of yet another "generic" answer machine. I was not happy with the response from either EBay or PayPal and disappointed with both. This site was the only place where there was any interest.