operaguy, with all of this please keep in mind that the dollar is far less worth then the euro.... thanks to Bush :-)

"if a company "charges you more" for something because the euro is not equal to the dollar, are they really "charging you more?" Aren't they just 'including' the exchange rate in the purchase price?"

That would be totally fair, no problem with that. But with E-On (and a number of other companies) they do not take in consideration the exchange rate at all. They just say, one dollar equals one euro. Of course that isn't the case at all... that's what the whole debate is about.

E-On claims that this is due to a number of reasons, like taxes, resellers fees and such, but the whole strange thing is that the tax is being charged on top of the stated price and we cannot buy E-On from resellers in Europe at all.

It all started when the euro became much more worth then the dollar. When the dollar was worth more all of these companies made us pay in dollars, giving us a fair exchange rate, that was handled by our credit card issuers. As soon as the dollar dropped, they all decided to let us pay in euros or uk pounds, but nor giving us the fair exchange rate at, but a 1=1 exchange rate.

Suddenly resellers, taxes and who knows what became an issue for all of these companies, while they were a non issue before. The most strange thing is that the rest of the world still pays all of these companies in us dollars.

That's why some of the European users are very angry, suddenly we're singled out and pay outrages prices. We're being told all kinds of reasons why this has to happen, most af them have never been an issue at all and still are non existant, just lame excuses..... for ripping us off!

Message edited on: 02/11/2005 12:13

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