{"id":839,"date":"2008-03-03T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/the-price-of-online-shopping\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T15:58:21","slug":"the-price-of-online-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2008\/03\/the-price-of-online-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of online shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet makes the world smaller, so they say. You can buy things in other countries, when you have enough trust in the credit-card billing system the seller uses. No problem so far. At the moment I&#8217;m looking at buying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/lightroom\">Adobe&#8217;s LightRoom<\/a>. This piece of software when buying the &#8220;download version&#8221; is US$299. But I don&#8217;t live in the US, so I changed my setting to Netherlands and thus&#8230;the euro as currency. To my surprise, the price in euro&#8217;s is 296.31, which with the current exchangerate is about US$450. WTF? So I download the same piece of software (US English version), no postal service or overseas shipping is involved, and still the price is 50% higher.<\/p>\n<p>But internet makes the world smaller, so I change the currency back to US$ and have my credit card billed for about 197 euros. Simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet makes the world smaller, so they say. You can buy things in other countries, when you have enough trust in the credit-card billing system the seller uses. No problem so far. At the moment I&#8217;m looking at buying Adobe&#8217;s LightRoom. This piece of software when buying the &#8220;download version&#8221; is US$299. But I don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2008\/03\/the-price-of-online-shopping\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}