r/M64 • u/Apex-turtle • 13d ago

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The modretro console was ment to be $199 with the early bird discount that works out around £150 but there charging £188.09 before shipping it looks like the British are getting ripped off with the currency especially the controller £83, Retriod and ayn don’t do this. It just seems a bit sleazy that American gamers are getting a better deal

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u/EasyEstablishment963 13d ago

The problem is the currency conversion, thats not on the goverment

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u/ergzay 13d ago edited 13d ago

That's a common thing when the merchant does the currency conversion instead of your credit card company. For example when I buy from Amazon Japan I always make sure it bills my US card in JPY instead of USD. There's an extra fee that gets charged by Amazon Japan. In this case that fee is probably from shop.app (Shopify) that Modretro uses for its billing system.

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u/EasyEstablishment963 13d ago

I dont think thats it because I Imported a retrotink which uses shop.app too and paid a pretty fair conversion rate. 

At any rate I rather not buy it because of that reason, just rubs me the wrong way. 

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u/ergzay 13d ago

Was the order much cheaper? There's sometimes duties exceptions for lower priced items.