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| JLCPCB: Only ever choose USD, otherwise your invoice is inaccurate/wrong |
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| Whales:
I always choose to pay in AUD on online platforms where I can. I presume other people also prefer their own country's currency when it's available, amongst other things it lets you avoid your bank's exchange fees. It seems like this is a mistake on JLCPCB: all it does it change the invoice to be in AUD (based off a guessed exchange rate), the charge to your credit card will still be in USD (with your bank's exchange rate then converting it to AUD). I find this rather weird and unexpected. Maybe it's commonplace? I was able to get a corrected USD invoice by manually asking JLC's support, but they also said this: --- Quote ---1, Currently we can only support USD, the invoice shows in AUD because you choose that currency. So in the future if you want to know the amount in USD, please kindly set it as shown below~ --- End quote --- So in other words: you should only ever choose USD on jlcpcb.com, everything else just makes your invoice less accurate (or in my case for reimbursements: flat out wrong). |
| jeremy:
A lot of Chinese websites do this; they store the amount that they charged you in USD, and then when you go to generate the invoice they use the exchange rate of the current day, rather than the day when you paid. It’s completely incorrect, but :-// I just always do everything in USD now. |
| retiredfeline:
--- Quote from: Whales on May 06, 2022, 07:18:30 am ---I always choose to pay in AUD on online platforms where I can. I presume other people also prefer their own country's currency when it's available, amongst other things it lets you avoid your bank's exchange fees. --- End quote --- It depends. With my card it's always better to pay in the overseas biller's chosen currency rather than AUD, otherwise their bank may do "dynamic currency conversion" which has a poorer rate than the card. I got caught by this a couple of times holidaying overseas, but also applies to online purchases from overseas. In the case of JLCPCB it looks like they always bill in USD and the AUD is just to give an estimate. |
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