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Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by tyzer, Sep 29, 2006.

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What should the default currency be on adquick.co.uk?

  1. UK Pounds £

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  2. US Dollars $

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    i'm after some advice on my website which is due to launch soon.

    My site, AdQuick is a text ad marketplace where potential advertisers can browse our site and choose exactly what websites they want to advertise on.

    AdQuick is a UK company, but our website can be used by people from all over the world. Currently our plan is to have all prices on our site in UK pounds (
     
    tyzer, Sep 29, 2006 IP
  2. AnaB

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    Use USD for international sites.
     
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    yep im in agreeance with USD also.
     
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  4. Ohene

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    USD, since we pretty much rule the net :D
     
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  5. Josh-H

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    I am Uk but all my prices on here are USD because its more widely used/
     
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  6. Jasonb

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    well its a .co.uk site isnt it :). I use $$ in paypal but im from the UK
     
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  7. spark911

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    Can you not check some how? If they signup and put UK as location then GBP, otherwise default to USD
     
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    I use USD and I feel I loose some UK customers towards my UK based competitors because of that. It's about the psychlogy of trust rather than any inconvenience of currency conversion. Best bet is having 2 domains - 1 TLD for the US and 1 co.uk for the UK market. Both sites should differ in content in order to avoid any dup content filter.
     
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  9. Hannah

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    Exactly, I would definitely go with this idea. It can't be too hard to implement.

    If you really have no other option, as it is a .co.uk site, I would go with GBP as the default currency, however I would also make sure that visitors can EASILY change the currency to USD.
     
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  10. tyzer

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    thanks for all the comments so far its much appreciated.
     
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    I wouldn't stick to just one currency, but bear it mind that rates can increase depending on the currency when dealing with merchant bank accounts.

    I would quote prices in US$, £ and €
     
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    I would quote prices in both and do euros too, but the default should be pounds because thats what people expect when going to a .co.uk
     
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    I say USD, but it's the best to have other currencies as well.
     
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    Why couldn't you just use a shopping cart that supports multiple currencies?

    The card processor we use allows vendors to set the initial currency exchange seen by their customers for their own country, with a drop down for 12 more choices. http://www.seotutor.net/purchase.html
     
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    The card processor we use has the ability to allow users to choose what currency to pay in anyway, so when they are on their secure server they can choose £, $ or
     
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