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Comment by howlett

As a user I hate it when I get localised prices, especially if the at-the-time exchange rate ends up being more expensive for me. If I see something sold for $9.99 but I get £9.99 I think "why am I paying more for this", simply because the exchange rate is more favourable since I'm in the UK. But when I only see USD prices I'm more likely to buy something as it's not overly complicated.

If you want you could pull real-time exchange rates and have a button that indicates the conversion for someone who wants to see the "most likely" price (depending on when they actually pay for it).

For example if you sell something for $9.99 just leave it as such, and Stripe will make the conversion and you'll always sell at the same price regardless from where someone is coming from.

That's how I feel about it anyway!

parent howlett 4 years ago

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