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Originally Posted by Dirty F
No, i get 18 euros in the bank. And i like to compensate that by instead giving Europeans access for half the price i let them pay the full price just like Americans. Really hard to understand is it? I could also compensate this by raising all my prices with 50% but that wont work. That will kill my signups so the other option is letting Europeans pay what they should pay instead of half the price. Sounds more than fair to me. And since not ONE person has complained about it so far i think it sounds fair to a lot people.
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Aah, ok the penny drops. OK, I see your pov now - your income is dropping because the dollar is sliding. However, your argument is flawed... you should actually value your sites for the euro and then have the US crowd pay more, so that your income is tied to the euro. Your problem is, like oil, you have decided to base your income on USD. There are many many sites out there that say "we're a european host, therefore our base currency is euro". These people are unaffected by the sliding dollar.
So, you're saying your sites are worth $30/mo, yet that means you only get 18euro, so to compensate for that your european customers have to pick up the tab of the US customers. Why not just let the US customers pick up their own tab and hike your sites to $45 for them and 30 euro for the euro crowd ie switch your base currency to euro? That is if you believe your sites are worth 30 euros.... being a european, you know how much your sites are worth in euro much more than an American who lives under the $....