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Telstra Accepting PayPal Payments - Avoid 1% Credit Card Surcharge When Paying Your Bill

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Telstra Accepting PayPal Payments - Avoid 1% Credit Card Surcharge When Paying Your Bill
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hamza23 on 05/03/2013 - 12:06 exchange.telstra.com.au (2235 clicks)

You can now pay your Telstra bill via paypal.

You can use this method to pay via credit card to get your reward points, without paying the usual 1% credit card surcharge that Telstra charge.

When paying by Paypal choose the fund source as credit card then continue to pay your bill and you are done.

A good way of saving 1% of every bill you need to pay.

Did it yesterday without a problem, worked well :)

https://exchange.telstra.com.au/2013/02/28/telstra-partners-…

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        • lonewolf on 09/03/2013 - 08:04

          I dont know, I have always had AMEX cards in my account, i just added them like any mastercard credit cards. I am not sure why you guys are having problems?

          Does it matter if my AMEX is from a bank and not from AMEX directly?

        • cdchi1 on 09/03/2013 - 10:07

          Think it used to be available, but can't add new ones…so I've heard. Anyway where the signup section for this is, no allowance for AMEX, just V and MC I think.

        • zzyss on 10/03/2013 - 11:01

          Is yours a USD account rather than AUD? That might explain it…

  • stevoplaystation on 08/03/2013 - 23:54

    anyway to pay telstra business accounts without creditcard surcharge. Just tried, mine is 10 digit account, paypal required 13 digits. So didn't work.

  • t25 on 09/03/2013 - 20:35

    can i use someone else credit card to pay my bill? or does the cardholder and account holder have to be the same?

    • hamza23 on 13/03/2013 - 01:23

      I don't see why you can't add someone elses credit card to your paypal, once you go through the verification process it will be verified and ready to use.

  • quirkykiwi on 28/03/2013 - 00:44
    +1

    Regarding using AMEX cards in paypal(australia), this is from Paypal Australia themselves

    If you already registered an Amex Card before PayPal Australia had been
    localised, you may use the card up until the expiration date of the
    card. Once the card expired, you would not be able to use it or update
    it. The only way is to add a Visa or MasterCard.

    • antkey on 29/03/2013 - 21:55

      I just added one AMEX to my account with no issue.

  • hamza23 on 30/03/2013 - 17:39
    +3

    Update! As per previous comment, PayPal now accepting American Express as of 2 days ago! Great news and means we can now pay our Telstra bills through PayPal funded by Amex without any fee :)

    • kevjutsu on 03/04/2013 - 13:03

      Thanks for the news, you should really add a separate post as it would benefit a tonne of people who would prefer earning more points on their cards :)

      • hamza23 on 04/04/2013 - 00:12

        I would but someone already put it on the forums so I don't want to double post or step on someones toes? Not sure if accepting a new payment method would be classified as a deal? This current deal was a way to avoid a 1% surcharge, accepting amex is just another way in doing that. So didn't think it'd be best in my opinion.

  • Growla on 09/03/2016 - 18:15

    Paypal now accepts payments, so no charge from Telstra and the 3 points kick WOOH! win!

  • Growla on 09/03/2016 - 18:16

    I mean now accepts AMEX payments. ugh

  • gungirlyuna on 13/12/2021 - 14:12

    Does this deal still work? Can't find a way to pay using PayPal on the Telstra app

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