They add a 25% VAT on top of it so your 150 EUR + 25% = 189.99 so they charged correctly. The issue really is that our UK tax is 20% not 25% so we have been overcharged by 5%. It is not legal for them to ask us to charge in US Dollars (thanks to a stupid EU regulation), they must use an EU currency and as they only take…
It also unfair that it is a blanket 25% VAT for all of Europe when individual countries have their own VAT rates, mine being 20%. It is down to how they have set up their paypal gateway, they send the total price inclusive of VAT to paypal instead of letting paypal add on the VAT based on the user's location like most…
It keeps cutting off my post so trying again: Is the price showing as €189.99 at checkout but $200 before that in all places on the site intended? Because for me that means a jump in price from about 130GBP to 180GBP which seems a bit steep to me and way out of my price range now. I have submitted this as a support ticket…