However it can be highly problematic if you browsing as if you are from another country when it comes to computing sales tax.Īpparent irregularities can also arise if you somehow land on a US$ page but end up being corrected to AU$, NZ$, CA$ or S$ when you click through to the cart.Ĭomputing Black Friday discount prices across different products and 18 different currencies can mean that something will go a bit odd. Using a VPN and/or an antitrack feature (such as the one in CCleaner Browser) can an excellent idea when shopping online to stop merchants from 'optimising' your price. Hopefully the VPN thing will work and/or Dave will get back quickly as the Black Friday sale ends tomorrow. I'll also flag your question to the Piriform staff. So if you are using a VPN I'd try turning it off while you make the CCleaner purchase. Interestingly the 2 different prices you quote are exactly 20% different, which is the current VAT rate. (Even though he was paying in USD that's not too unusual people do occasionally purchase things online in other currencies but pay their local tax on them). We eventually worked out that he was using a VPN, the sales software read his VPN IP as being in Europe, and so it applied the European sales tax - VAT.

(That was on a different product, Malwarebytes, but also in a Black Friday sale). I'm in the UK so the Pro offer is £9.95 GBP, but the cart here shows that local sales taxes are included - Vat points to a possibe reason for your discrepency.Įarlier this week, on a different forum, someone was complaining that VAT was being added instead of their local tax. It could be a USD to Canadian dollar conversion, but doesn't seem right?

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