Unfair/Inaccurate Currency Exchange Rates When Buying Donuts
about the same problem with euro. the boatload is 100$ and in euro.....90€ ( which represent about 120$)
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I don't think it is about punishing those in other countries at all, more likely it is about EA setting the overseas prices at a consistent level. The exchange rate is changing every day, but the price of donuts in the store never changes ... a boatload in the US has always been $100 and in the UK £69.99 (today's exchange rate would be £61.19). They will want to set the prices at a level where the exchange doesn't become an issue, which inevitably means overestimating the overseas price to some extent.
The other factor is that there is a fee for every currency exchange, and as we all have a local appstore which we pay in our local currency, EA has to stand the cost of that fee, so I imagine they take account of that as well.
These are all things not unique to EA ... in fact most of the products on the iTunes store suffer from the same issue, in my experience .
Could be worse ... most of the time products from the US hit the UK's shores with a US price of, say $200 and sell here for £200.
The other factor is that there is a fee for every currency exchange, and as we all have a local appstore which we pay in our local currency, EA has to stand the cost of that fee, so I imagine they take account of that as well.
These are all things not unique to EA ... in fact most of the products on the iTunes store suffer from the same issue, in my experience .
Could be worse ... most of the time products from the US hit the UK's shores with a US price of, say $200 and sell here for £200.
