Originally Posted by
riku2
Sites like amazon and play.com will offer (or make it compulsory) to pay in euros for non UK customers but use a non optimal exchange rate (in play.com's case about 10-15% surcharge for paying in euros).
Sounds pretty optimal to me (at least for play.com). This "service" is called
Dynamic Currency Conversion and is in my view nothing more than a well-disguised scam. It should never be compulsory though.