Extra charge for buying on android market

Moonpie2

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Hello there !

I recently bought my 1st app on the android market for my desire. For the princely sum of 42p.
BARGAIN I thought. Until I looked at my bank account and saw there was a chuffing charge for using my credit card for £1.50 :(:(:(

How are people buying their stuff on the market and not getting stung for extra cash ?

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It is likely that it charged you in a foreign currency and your credit card then charged you their foreign currency penalty/charge.

I have no idea if there is a fix or workaround.
 
That's true.
It was originally in euros

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So the service charge was basically for currency conversion you think ?
I'm guessing that when you've bought stuff (in sterling)with your credit card, then you have only paid the stated ammount ?
 
Hmmm, I used to have that problem, but all of a sudden it stopped. I was under the impression that google checkout was converting it into £ before the transaction occured.
Could there possibly be a setting in google checkout you haven't changed?
It's worth a look to see if the option is in there.
 
This has stopped my buying a few apps from the Market as the last one I bought was in Euro's and I got charged the extra £1.50.

Having just look at the market I'd say about 50% are in showing their cost in euro's and not sterling.

Quite irritating to be honest and after searching quite heavily it seems no-one has a fix.
 
I just phoned my bank and confirmed that the charge was indeed a conversion charge :(

So yeah, that's going to put a massive chunk of the market out of bounds.
I would have thought that someone might have spotted this problem and fixed it by now ? :confused:

Just been looking at googlecheckout to see if there's any options to wangle with there and it doesn't seem so.

McWildcard, can you confirm or not if you have bought anything in yen, or dollars or Euros etc.. and not been charged ?
 
Think there must be a setting somewhere. I've never been charged extra. When buying in euros, on the checkout page do you get an approximate sterling amount shown? When I purchase something in euros, at the checkout the amount is shown in euros, but it will also say "approximately £1.39" or something similar.
 
Yeah I also see the "approx in sterling" ammount too, but it looks like the transactions are STILL going through my account as a foreign currency that needs to be converted !!
 
Mmm, not sure then. Just checked my last few transactions on my bank account. There are euro, dollar and sterling transactions there and none of them have any kind of charge applied to them:

€1.78 = £1.53
$0.99 = £0.65

Maybe its a bank thing. I'm with Alliance & Leicester, maybe they don't charge for conversion? Who are you with?
 
Or maybe A&L are just saving my charges up and will wallop me with a £100 conversion charge soon:p

Guess you should speak to Halifax then and see what they say.
 
Well they say there's a conversion charge on every single one of their cards except one.
But I'll be damned if I'm faffing about changing bank accounts and nonsense just to buy something on an app market that has no technical reason not to convert the ammount itself and charge me in my local currency :(

I see I'm not the only one to be disturbed by this...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android Market/thread?tid=164bd70acae205ad&hl=en
 
Hate this, would buy a lot more from the market if Google checkout was more like Paypal, there was a big push for Google checkout back when it launched but I don't personally see what it offers over Paypal especially for consumers.

Let's hope Paypal is supported soon.
 
Use a visa or mastercard credit card in google checkout is my only workaround for now

I heard paypal was coming soon.........................about a month ago
 
Moonpie2 said:
That's true.
It was originally in euros

j7yoo9.jpg


So the service charge was basically for currency conversion you think ?
I'm guessing that when you've bought stuff (in sterling)with your credit card, then you have only paid the stated ammount ?
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I'd call that a complete rip off since if that went through my bank (barclays) I would've been charged an extra two pence at least for currency conversion.
 
I had this as well using Lloyds TSB, bought around 5 items and got charged an extra fee for each one. They need to resolve this ASAP, as it just further promotes piracy.
 
i've never been charged, but then google checkout does seem to convert any purchases to £ first.

i've never changed any settings on checkout though :confused:
 
Well us unfortunates who do get charged can probably take heart in the fact that paypal is 99% more than likely to be an android market option sooner or later.

I'm sure I can limit myself to free apps and apps listed in £ until then :)
 
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