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Originally Posted by RaidenisOP
Agreed. That's one reason I prefer to deal with Mad Haus instead of Automaton or A3U... IMO There's no reason for a Canadian Company to charge USD other than greed...
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This has been discussed in other threads many times over.
As mentioned, part of the reason they charge in US is because they sell to the world, not just Canada.
Another part of the reason they charge in US is to protect against the crazy up and down nature of the Canadian dollar.
Retailers pay their suppliers in US funds. So let's take an example. Let's say the Us and Can dollar are on a 1-to-1 par. So if a retailer charges the customer in Canadian for pre-orders, it won't matter.
A $100 Canadian pre-order will get them back $100 US. BUT what happens when the dollar drops ten cents? That $100 Canadian pre-order just ended up being $90 US. They just lost $10 US dollars.
Multiply that by dozens of orders, and that can mean hundreds and thousands of dollars lost because the currency exchange rate fluctuated.
I don''t know the profit margins for small retailers, but I suspect something like this can mean the difference between making a profit or losing money, or staying in business or not.
And if anyone wants to bring up charging taxes in US too, do the math, it doesn't matter. The tax on $100 US is the same as tax on $130 Canadian.
