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No problem.

Here's another nitpick. Upon checkout it detected that I was in Canada and showed the price in CAD. It came to $9.16, and this is very odd since USD has been cheaper than CAD for a while now. It should've been under 9 CAD. I don't know why it worked out to be 9.16 and I don't really care, I just know it's wrong. So, not to confuse people like me just show the price in USD.



I wonder if the currency conversion logic is mixed up. Google returns: 1 US dollar = 0.9839 Canadian dollars. I wonder if it's dividing by .9839 instead of multiplying by it, which does get you close to 9.16.


At least the USD to EUR conversion is fine. Not a mixup in the algorithm, at least.


Strange. I think FastSpring controls all the currency logic with an iron fist, but I'll see whether I can force a "show everything in USD" option.


On the price point - there's still the market buy/sell spread on the currency market.

Western Union exhibits similar behaviour.




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