MoneyBookers commercial account

Today I got an email from MoneyBookers letting me know that they updated my account from personal to commercial. So, now I have to pay fees(2,9% for EU). If you are using MB to receive money from Envato then you should know that in one day you can get similar email, like my. According to their terms if you get money from selling stuff you should make your account commercial.

Dear Mr. Andrei ,

Thank you for choosing Skrill (Moneybookers) as your payment provider.

This comes to inform you that you have been using your Skrill (Moneybookers) account for commercial purpose. Therefore, it is now considered business (commercial) account as per our terms of user and subject to receive money fees.

Detailed information about the fees applicable to all commercial users can be found here – http://www.moneybookers.com/ads/merchant-account/fees/

Currently, the fees applied to your account depend on your monthly transaction volume. However, they can be reduced as per our fee schedule. In this respect, we would kindly ask you to notify us once your monthly receive money volume has surpassed a certain threshold making you eligible for lower fees.

E-mail: merchantservices@skrill.com Tel: +44 (0)870 383 0762

Best regards,

Skrill Merchant Services

Hello Smartik,

How old is your account?...to know how much time i have :)).

I had the same recently, back with Paypal since they do cards in UK now.

hm i am using moneybooker since a couple of years and use it for transferring a lot of money, but i never got this mail.

Maurul said
Hello Smartik, How old is your account?...to know how much time i have :)).

I think there was a way to bypass that, it’s been discussed here on the forums, can’t remember.

aleluja said
I think there was a way to bypass that, it’s been discussed here on the forums, can’t remember.

Maybe you can remember….its very useful

I would suggest this is theft. For a $2000+ monthly transfers, SWIFT is just $35 while MB fee is $60+ so just to remind you, I said goodbie to PP and MB long time ago.

^ I use Payoneer to withdraw money from envato, directly. Moneybookers only to get money from my partners which was a good solution until now.

Smartik said
Approx. 1 year and I transferred approx 3000$ in this period. All money from Envato.

Smartik said
^ I use Payoneer to withdraw money from envato, directly. Moneybookers only to get money from my partners which was a good solution until now.

So you are using Moneybookers for Envato or not? I’m confused.