Website purchase how do I pay in dollars not Euro?

rigsby1208

Hi
I am trying to make a purchase off the web. The item is priced in dollars, but when I try to pay the price changes to be shown in Euro automatically and at a terrible conversion rate substantially inflating the price. I suspect its just a different price rather than a conversion of the dollar price. How does the website know I am in the UK and therefore change the price to Euro's and is there anyway to enable payment in dollars (or make it believe I am in the US?)

M4RKM

the website knows you're in the UK, via your IP address... do a quick search for anonymous proxies, and you'll find one that will give you a US ip, so therefore you can pay in $

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Unstoppable_2

...as long as the free proxy server doesn't store your credit card details.

rigsby1208

Thanks
I have found sites listing the ip number of the proxy servers, but I am an idiot when it comes to computing and do not know what to do with this ip number, any tips?

thanks

M4RKM

nor do i, as i'm assuming you're on Windows, and i don't run that, so i can't really tell you what to click etc.. sorry

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benjdr

Tell us the website and we'll have a play around.

Unstoppable_2

Leopard wrote: »

Shame on you, markymoo!

We should always accord posters on here the fundamental courtesy of assuming they are not dumb enough to be using Windows unless they actually say so.

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