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0 pointsslyall3y ago0 comments

I just checked a book ( The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson in paperback ) for shipping to New Zealand.

Book Depository is $NZ 21.19 total. Including shipping a NZ Tax (GST). Discounted from $24.77

Amazon is $26.27 for the book, $24 for shipping, $7.50 for tax and $1.30 for "Exchange rate guarantee fee". Total is $NZ 59.27 or almost 3x what Book Depository wanted.

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EliRivers3y ago

$1.30 for "Exchange rate guarantee fee".

Wow, are you forced to have that if you make that purchase? That's a huge percentage to charge to cover someone's exchange rate risk over that timespan with those currencies. Someone's making out like an absolute bandit there.

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EliRivers3y ago

$1.30 for "Exchange rate guarantee fee".

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