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Old 01-26-2009, 12:19 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
I don't understand why stores/products sell in currency specific values. Price the thing in the local currency for the store and my credit card company will do the exchange at the current exchange rate. Wouldn't this also be easier on the sellers too. Constantly adjusting prices with the fluctuating exchange rates must not be fun.

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One reason is that Americans are famously bad at dealing with any currency other than the US$. I have separate US$ prices on my web site simply to stop the e-mails I used to get saying "What's that in real money" (or words to that effect) when I only used to display prices in Pounds Sterling.
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