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Originally Posted by BV
bingo ......
because when regional billing is activated that customers price is locked in on his euro price. it wont change.
it's just a choice you have to make
a good analogy is like so:
do you want a safe fixed rate mortgage (RB non activated)
or do you want a variable rate mortgage (RB activated)
The million dollar questions are:
1. What will the Euro do in the next couple years.
and
2. How many sales and rebills are you losing to pissed off Europeans when you try to charge them almost 50 dollars for a 30 dollar site.
If you think price doesent matter jack that mother fucker up to 50 Euros and make 80 bucks.
50.00 EUR = 79.4875 USD
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I'm totally with you. I think it's a racket - if you want to be greedy and make more $, why not just charge everyone $40 for membership. You won't cos you know that people will see the price and say, fuck that, it's too expensive per month and go somewhere else. Well, the exact same mentality occurs for non-US customers too ya know...
to be exact on that disclaimer, the default euro page doesn't show it (as that price is locked into the euro amount), but click to pay in USD and it appears as that is a fluctuating rate.
What I want to know is, for those sites that actually advertise the price in USD on their tours, is this illegal, since it's impossible for the person to actually get that USD price if they are outside the US? Seems like false advertising to me...
There's not a single argument I've heard that warrants this practice, except pure greed. Suppliers of tangible goods always hike up the cost a bit to cover export expenses, but online viewing of digital goods? Doesn't cost you any more or any less to provide the goods to non-US customers...