Originally Posted by
Majuki
This happens occasionally in the US too. A familiar case is British Airways. They say they process the transaction out of Florida, and the transaction is in USD natively (no currency conversion is happening), but you'll see a foreign transaction fee if your card has one.
Yep. I've encountered this a few times when purchasing software licenses online if the company or its payment processor is located outside of the US (e.g. independent software developers that use Paddle to manage their payments). Now I make sure to use a card without foreign transaction fees in those cases.