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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan
Hmm, I thought when Kobo says that they are an international store they meant that they have localized store presence.
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By "international" they probably just mean that anyone from any country can purchase ebooks from them. There are plenty of online shops that will only sell to customers from the same country as themselves, and so they're not considered international stores.
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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan
Are people in other countries like Australia okay with the hidden fee?
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I'm from New Zealand and we're all pretty much used to having to pay these sort of fees if we want to purchase from foreign companies. They're charged by the credit card companies, not the online store you're buying from. In fact the website you're buying from has absolutely no knowledge that you will be charged a currency conversion fee because each credit card company has their own rules and fee rates. So blaming Kobo isn't really fair since it has nothing to do with them.
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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan
Well, at least you know that the store is in US, because of the .com name, like Amazon.com. I always thought .com name implies US presence. Kobo's .com name is misleading then is it not?
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.com was originally intended as being short for "commercial", to differentiate between commercial websites and non-commercial ones (.org, .edu, .net, etc). It isn't unique to the US and many companies outside of the US own .com domain names. I myself own
murraymoffatt.com, I purchased it because I wanted to grab it before any other Murray Moffatt's in the world got it.