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Originally Posted by jlg432
Keep a USA account open with a debit or credit card access. Keep a balance in the account and pay using that resource ...
But beware there may be an additional fee to transfer the $$ overseas from your European acct to the USA acct and then still get charged the exchange rate on top of that.... either way there will be a fee.
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Yes, that's absolutely right. Transferring funds from a European country to the US, or vice versa, is expensive, however you do it. Both banks will charge a fee, and they'll add a loading to the exchange rate as well.
The simplest solution is to use a European debit card to buy gift vouchers from Amazon.Com (
not Amazon.de or uk), then pay that voucher into your Amazon.com account, and use it to purchase the books.
Contrary to what some poeple here have said, you
can use non-US money to buy dollar gift vouchers. Your bank will charge you a fee, but it's probably a flat rate per transaction, in which case it pays to buy a fairly large voucher and to use it over a period to make smaller purchases.