{"id":2053,"date":"2019-09-21T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T10:02:33","slug":"ebay-and-paypal-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Ebay and Paypal Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Ebay and Paypal Fees<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong><strong>. Ebay charges me a commission for selling items using their online market service. The seller purchases the items on ebay and transfers the money via paypal into my account. Paypal then charges me a commission for using their online money transferring service. Is the above-mentioned transaction permissible? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> eBay is an online marketplace; a place for buyers and sellers to come together and trade almost anything.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal is an online payment service that allows individuals and businesses to transfer funds electronically.<\/p>\n<p>The commission paid to eBay would be regarded as a fee in exchange for the usage of their facilities provided.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the percentage taken by PayPal for the transferred amount is a fee, for their services in facilitating the transferral of the money.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the abovementioned transactions are permissible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section the_content has_content\">\n<div class=\"section_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebay and Paypal Fees Q. Ebay charges me a commission for selling items using their online market service. The seller purchases the items on ebay and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}