Getting paid in your currency
When you sell on Preloved Bazaar, you’re paid out in your own currency — the settlement currency tied to your payout account. You list your items and view your dashboard in that same currency, so there’s nothing to convert in your head and no foreign-currency bank account to set up.
How a cross-currency sale works
Sometimes a buyer pays in a different currency to yours — for example, a US buyer buying from a UK seller. When that happens, the conversion to your currency is handled automatically as part of the payment. The sale settles into your currency once, and your payout reaches your bank in your local currency as normal. There’s no separate cross-border payout fee for this.
Where FX (exchange) comes in
It’s only fair to be straight about this: when a sale is converted from another currency into yours, the payment processor applies its own exchange rate, which typically includes a small spread of around 1–2% on the conversion. On a cross-currency sale, that conversion cost currently comes out of the settled amount, so the amount that lands in your currency can be very slightly less than a like-for-like domestic sale.
For sales already in your own currency, there’s no conversion at all — so there’s no FX spread to think about.
What doesn’t change
- No Preloved Bazaar selling commission — we don’t take a cut of your sale. A payment-processing fee (via Stripe) is deducted from each payout and reversed if the order is refunded.
- Escrow and payout timing are unchanged by selling internationally — the same holding window and buyer-protection rules apply.
- Tracking still starts your payout timer, so add it as soon as you post.
In short: you sell, list and get paid in your own currency, conversions are handled for you, and the only cross-currency cost is the small exchange spread on the conversion itself.
