Australians hit with extra charges for purchasing apps in the Marketplace

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By Daniel Rubino
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It's already rough enough for a lot of our international readers who will read about an app only to find it's not listed in their localized Marketplace. Or even worse, they don't have a Marketplace of to call their own (hi Sweden!). In Australia they do have their own Marketplace but as Long Zheng reports, there's a 101% transaction fee on top of every app purchase with a credit card.

This has to do with where the transactions are processed (Singapore) and that whole international banking situation. Australians are encouraged to use carrier billing as an alternative until, hopefully, Microsoft fixes the situation. Long Zheng is quick to point out he doesn't think Microsoft is doing this on purpose (and they don't seem to benefit from it) but nonetheless, it's just bad when a $0.99 app costs you $1.99.

Source: iStartedSomething

Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
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Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central. He is also the head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007, when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and watches. He has been reviewing laptops since 2015 and is particularly fond of 2-in-1 convertibles, ARM processors, new form factors, and thin-and-light PCs. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.