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by willheim 5541 days ago
Businesses do that every day. Look at the price of a book which often has two or more currency prices on it. Of course, what happened here in Canada is that stores started offering discounts or "US Pricing" models when our dollar went up. If we're to nitpick we're talking physical items which have associated local costs involved (local staff, local vendor space leases, local energy costs, etc.) whereas here we're talking electric bits and bytes. However, in sales and conversions, it's all the same... no?

I have to admit, I was looking at Grahl Software's PDF Annotator which is listed at $69.95USD but when I went to the site it said C$79.95 (using my IP to give me a price). Did I convert? No. I was turned off. That's 19% more expensive than if I used a US IP. I've a feeling, only from my own experience, that different currency prices in a flat-earth internet environment is a big turn off for consumers.