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Pricing a UK DConf in US $ is the fastest way of ensuring UK people do not sign up.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Russel Winder | On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 07:59:44 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
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> Pricing a UK DConf in US $ is the fastest way of ensuring UK people do not sign up.
Pricing a UK DConf in £ is the fastest way of ensuring international
people do not sign up.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to bauss | On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 11:04:20 UTC, bauss wrote:
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> Pricing a UK DConf in £ is the fastest way of ensuring international
> people do not sign up.
Simple solution: offer a pound price and a dollar price based on the most recent exchange rate and just eat the cost if the pound moves.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to jmh530 | On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 14:16:25 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 11:04:20 UTC, bauss wrote:
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>> Pricing a UK DConf in £ is the fastest way of ensuring international
>> people do not sign up.
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> Simple solution: offer a pound price and a dollar price based on the most recent exchange rate and just eat the cost if the pound moves.
Agree with that, but using USD should definitely be the default.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to jmh530 | On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 14:16:25 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 11:04:20 UTC, bauss wrote:
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>> Pricing a UK DConf in £ is the fastest way of ensuring international
>> people do not sign up.
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> Simple solution: offer a pound price and a dollar price based on the most recent exchange rate and just eat the cost if the pound moves.
Seriously, the simplest solution is to keep it in $. You’ve got to pick something, listing multiple currencies is just silly; there are plenty of sites listing exchange rates already. I mean, if you’d list $ and £, why not €, ¥, crownes and what not.
Everyone here has solved bigger problems than converting currencies.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Bastiaan Veelo | On 1/30/2019 8:32 AM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> Everyone here has solved bigger problems than converting currencies.
If I buy something in euros or pounds or whatever with my credit card, I get billed in dollars. If my credit card was issued by a London bank, I'm sure if I bought something denoted in dollars I'd be automatically billed in pounds.
This is normal for anyone who travels internationally and I do not understand why it would be an issue.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter Bright | On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:00:08PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 1/30/2019 8:32 AM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: > > Everyone here has solved bigger problems than converting currencies. > > If I buy something in euros or pounds or whatever with my credit card, I get billed in dollars. If my credit card was issued by a London bank, I'm sure if I bought something denoted in dollars I'd be automatically billed in pounds. > > This is normal for anyone who travels internationally and I do not understand why it would be an issue. It's a big issue to penny-pinchers who can't stand the idea of paying a cent extra for something -- because usually the exchange rate offered by credit cards isn't as good as what you could get if you converted the currency yourself at an exchange. T -- Never step over a puddle, always step around it. Chances are that whatever made it is still dripping. |
January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter Bright | On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 22:00:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/30/2019 8:32 AM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>> Everyone here has solved bigger problems than converting currencies.
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> If I buy something in euros or pounds or whatever with my credit card, I get billed in dollars. If my credit card was issued by a London bank, I'm sure if I bought something denoted in dollars I'd be automatically billed in pounds.
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> This is normal for anyone who travels internationally and I do not understand why it would be an issue.
Unless you have a travel credit card, you will probably get hit by foreign transaction fees. For large sums of money, it can be a lot.
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January 30, 2019 Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to H. S. Teoh | On 1/30/2019 2:36 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> It's a big issue to penny-pinchers who can't stand the idea of paying a
> cent extra for something -- because usually the exchange rate offered by
> credit cards isn't as good as what you could get if you converted the
> currency yourself at an exchange.
It depends on the card. I got a new one that is pretty competitive.
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January 30, 2019 [OT] Re: DConf 2019 | ||||
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Posted in reply to jmh530 | On 1/30/19 6:16 PM, jmh530 wrote: > On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 22:00:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 1/30/2019 8:32 AM, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: >>> Everyone here has solved bigger problems than converting currencies. >> >> If I buy something in euros or pounds or whatever with my credit card, I get billed in dollars. If my credit card was issued by a London bank, I'm sure if I bought something denoted in dollars I'd be automatically billed in pounds. >> >> This is normal for anyone who travels internationally and I do not understand why it would be an issue. > > Unless you have a travel credit card, you will probably get hit by foreign transaction fees. For large sums of money, it can be a lot. Many credit cards (in the US at least) advertise 0% foreign transaction fees. The ones that do charge have fees around 3%. That's $9 for $400. Not saying $9 is not something, but it's not a lot by comparison. At any rate, I'll look into allowing people to use https://pay.circle.com and https://transferwise.com to pay for their ticket. We have accounts with both. |
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