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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I started wondering why Amazon would have the same price point all across the board--in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain--when they know that that means that the British will pay quite a bit more and the Canadians quite a bit less, because of it. So, if a book was priced at 99 cents, for example, in the U.S., the price would be 1.52 pounds (.99/.65) in GB and $0.75 Canadian dollars (.99/1.32) in Canada, at today's exchange rates.
Then the thought occurred to me that the exchange rates fluctuate, of course. So, if they based it on exchange rate, they would have to be changing the prices in Britain and Canada over and over--for the whole time that they carried the book. Now that doesn't seem like it would take a lot of work--just programming it in the computer like everything else. But, it probably would be fraught with issues that I can't think of at the moment. I'm sure that some of you will think of some right away.
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If one tried to equalize on the exchange rate, it would probably fry a computer because the prices would be changing every minute.
Not to mention you forgot the Euro, Peso, whatever Australia uses, and whatever currency the other Amazon's use. Note in Belarus, the price would be something like 2 million +.