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by brassic 3553 days ago
He is missing 55 cents because WB21 appear to be miscalculating the fee. They add 1% to the transfer amount ($5500) to get a total ($5555), and then take 1% from that ($55.55) as their fee.

In other words, their fee is really 1.01%. If the author can be bothered he should explain this to them and ask for his 55 cents back.

2 comments

Superman 3
Sounds like one programmer implemented it as "take 1% of the total, pay out 99%" and then another programmer incorrectly computed the total as "add 1% to the desired amount to pay."