Posted by Dragon on 03/01/06 23:14

"Temsonic" <dim.sp@miau.diolch> wrote in message
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> "Adrian" <anca@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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>> Damon wrote:
>>> Dragon wrote:
>>>> ok guys dvdp update ordered two dvds last week and they where
>>>> despatched on friday, today tuesday the turn up on my doorstep via
>>>> royal mail to the UK thats good in my books and that is the service
>>>> all the time for me from dvdp
>>>
>>> Do me a favour and tell me if the price (in �) they have listed
>>> including postage on your orders screen on your account is the same or
>>> even close to the amount that appears on your credit card statement.
>>>
>>> My Visa statement shows about 40p or more dearer than DVDPacific show
>>> in their orders page.
>>>
>>>
>>> Damon
>>
>> That's because nearly all banks add 2.75% handling charge for foreign
>> currency, the only one I know that doesn't is Nationwide BS. If I was
>> getting a lot of stuff from abroad I'd get one of their cards.
>> --
>> Adrian A
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> Plus some of them add a standard fee of �1 to any transaction made in a
> foreign currency. Mine only started this about a year ago, totally pissed
> me off when I found out. If you're buying a new R1 DVD at about �10 that's
> a handling charge of 10%!! Absolutely disgraceful.
>
>
i have to say i do agree on this, its a farse

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