Hello Guys
a fair share of K3s and other kits are sold overseas. The buyers' credit
cards are denominated in some other currency like GBP, AUD or EUR.
Henceforth, their bank often charges up to 2% for the currency conversion.
On a $ 2,500 order that's $ 50!
If Elecraft could get their cc
Yes Please.
Gary
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Chris Wagner kf6...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Guys
a fair share of K3s and other kits are sold overseas. The buyers' credit
cards are denominated in some other currency like GBP, AUD or EUR.
Henceforth, their bank often charges up to 2% for
If Elecraft could get their cc processing company or bank to quote
sale prices in the leading currencies by customers' transaction
volume, folks would save thousands.
In general all that does is move the forex exchange fee from the
customer to the vendor or the credit card processing
I wonder about that. My wife bought something in a shop in Oxford a few years
back. They rang up the credit card sale in US dollars, but the exchange rate
used was a bit low PLUS the card company still added a fee for it being a
foreign transaction. I compared it to some purchase in GBP and
Lets end this thread for now.
We're a lot smaller than Amazon, but we'll take a look at this.
Joe is probably correct though, in general all that changes is that the
vendor (us) is charged for the transfer fee and we end up increasing the
product price to cover it.
73, Eric WA6HHQ
Elecraft
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