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Originally Posted by terrypin
I was a bit annoyed to be charged at the end of the check out procedure an extra 50c (10% in this case) "for credit card purchases". I've emailed Fictionwise, as I think their page is misleading. The price was clearly marked: "You Pay: Regular = $4.99 Club = $4.24"
and as far as I could see there was no mention of extra for credit cards.
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This charge is clearly shown on the shopping cart page. The charge is applied for making a credit card purchase of under $5. You could have avoided the charge by adding a short story to your purchase to bring the total over $5. Or you could have purchased $5 worth of credit at Fictionwise with your credit card, called something like Micropay dollars, and left the balance to purchase something else from Fictionwise later.
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Originally Posted by terrypin
BTW, anyone here know if the 17.5% VAT value added tax applies to *all* USA-to-Europe transactions? I had a vague idea it only cut in at some level like 10 or 20 USD. But it was applied to this transaction. So total was 6.45 USD, about 30% higher than the marked price. About the cost of a paperback here.
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VAT at the rate in the purchaser's EU country applies to all electronic purchases from outside EU. The minimum level you are thinking about applies to physical purchases, where there is an exemption for small purchases, 35 GBP in UK I think. I imagine that the logic behind no exemption for electronic purchases is that it would be so easy to split up an electronic purchase into parts each under the minimum level that having an exemption would translate into no charges. The charge is new this year, from about 1 July.