Thread: International service fee for Kobo purchases?
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Old 03-14-2011, 05:31 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph View Post
Just curious - does anyone else pay Kobo a state sales tax when buying ebooks from them? I was just about to buy an ebook and noticed that I would be charged a DC sales tax and then later an international processing fee. This just keeps getting more and more expensive.
Kobo has just recently started charging me in euros because I'm located in France. All their euro-prices have French TVA included, which raises the price of the books by 20%. Plus, because I had been using my US credit card before, when prices were in US dollars, I'm now getting hit with the "foreign transaction fee" by the credit card company in the US.

I suppose I will have to switch to using my French credit card - but I suspect I'll get hit with their higher "foreign transaction fee" because the charge is coming from outside the EU.

Perhaps it is time to change the billing address on my US credit card....
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