I’m all for a global economy. I enjoy seeing stores up online that are based around the world since they usually sell items that can’t be found locally. This just goes to show how our planet is becoming one world instead of a planet with different countries.
However, if you’re going to be selling stuff online to different countries, please make sure your customer’s know where you’re based. That way we won’t be surprised when there’s a foreign transaction fee when we purchase goods from you.
Skype is a company that was purchased by eBay. eBay is an U.S. company. Boy was I surprised when I found this fee in my bank statement.
Skype is a great service and I’m willing to pay the extra fee. But the least you (I’m pointing at you Skype!) can do is let me know you’ll be processing my transaction in a foreign country causing me to incur a fee. And I mean something that is clearly stated, not some -5 font embedded footnote text! It’s just common courtesy!
I’ve seen this fee a couple of times already this year from purchasing goods online. Sure there’s no official internet tax, but this is slowly becoming one!
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The Fees of a Global Economy
I’m all for a global economy. I enjoy seeing stores up online that are based around the world since they usually sell items that can’t be found locally. This just goes to show how our planet is becoming one world instead of a planet with different countries.
However, if you’re going to be selling stuff online to different countries, please make sure your customer’s know where you’re based. That way we won’t be surprised when there’s a foreign transaction fee when we purchase goods from you.
Skype is a company that was purchased by eBay. eBay is an U.S. company. Boy was I surprised when I found this fee in my bank statement.
Skype is a great service and I’m willing to pay the extra fee. But the least you (I’m pointing at you Skype!) can do is let me know you’ll be processing my transaction in a foreign country causing me to incur a fee. And I mean something that is clearly stated, not some -5 font embedded footnote text! It’s just common courtesy!
I’ve seen this fee a couple of times already this year from purchasing goods online. Sure there’s no official internet tax, but this is slowly becoming one!
This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 5:23 pm and is filed under Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.