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Sigh. My order came to $155, and the site's trying to charge me 155 EUR. That's not really good, given that 155 EUR is about $200.

EDIT: It will charge the correct price if you switch the prices on the site to EUR. Second problem: one of my cards gave an unspecified error, the other was was denied by the bank for whatever reason. :/

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This is just a taste of what it's like to be a european buying electronics from US firms - i.e. the US price=1000 USD, UK price=1000 GBP (1526 USD). I'd count yourself lucky the discrepancy is only 45 dollars :)

edit: not to detract from what is indeed an annoying problem, which you appear to have solved anyway

That's what most websites do, even Apple. Especially Apple actually. Buying something from America in Dollars is often much cheaper.

This is a completely different issue. The site is mixing up dollars and euro so it's overcharging. It's not a conscious price decision they've made.

Apple mixes up euros and dollars as well. Last time I checked anyway, a $999 device would be €999 in europe.

Yes, but in this case the buyer sees $230 in their shopping cart but actually gets charged €230. Which is nearly $300. It's fine if Geeksphone decide to charge the same in dollars and euro, but they're displaying in one currency and charging in another (without conversion) which is obviously wrong. It seems to have been an honest mistake and they've indicated on their forums that they're fixing it.

That's largely due to taxes though.

Apple USD prices are excluding VAT while EUR prices include that.

I'm having the same issue. I switched to COD. I am hopeful they will fix the issue beforehand.

Either way, paying an extra 30 dollars to have a Firefox phone is worth it to me. I'm sick of my iPhone.

Getting the same. One fails with denied by bank, and the other fails with "wrong authentication". Their credit card processing website seems to kinda suck..

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