Pricing a UK DConf in US $ is the fastest way of ensuring UK people do not sign up.

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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.

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.

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.
>
> 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.

On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 14:16:25 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 11:04:20 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>
>> 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.

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.

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.

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.


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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.

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.

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.