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0 pointsAachen10mo ago0 comments

This. Related: if I had a penny for every time I needed a VPN just to load the payment method selection screen (but not for the actual payment, it's not geolocked) just to be able to pay somewhere, I'd get a lot of products for free by now...

Why not let germans select iDeal and dutch users Giropay? They'll not click it if it's not useful for them. Adjusting the sort for what's most commonly used makes sense, but why actively thwart users from paying by geolocking payment methods by IP address...

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lxgr10mo ago

Because then companies would have to charge all users the same price for the exact same service.

Charging customers from countries with higher average purchasing power more and hiding the fact behind "charging people in the local currency for convenience" is much more profitable!

nottorp10mo ago

I'm talking about those online stores that don't have a (customer hostile) thought out price for every locale, but they have some auto conversion.

When price is set to $9.99 which works out to 47.89287237634 in your local currency. Although it would work out to 45.89327782 if you used your bank's conversion instead of the "helpful" service.

In those cases i don't think the seller makes any extra money, they get their $9.99 minus payment processor's fees. They just think they're helpful but make you spend more for no good reason.

AachenOP10mo ago

Hadnt thought of that, but the price is the same between the two countries I had in mind. Indeed, if there are measures in place to keep products affordable for less lucky/affluent regions, by all means keep those. Just show them all available payment methods, irrespective of the adjusted price

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