Dammit! Abebooks.com is a foreign company...

[Qacer]

... and AMEX charged me a foreign conversion fee when I ordered online. I guess their prices were shown as Canadian Dollars instead of US dollars.

 

[Brainonska511]

Prices were in USD for me, but they are located in Canada, so you get hit with the foreign transaction fee. I got hit with a ~$2 transaction fee last fall buying a book. Unfortunately, it isn't widely circulated, so you find out after the fact.

 

[nickbits]

AbeBooks is a Canadian company

 

[Ika]

do many credit cards charge that foreign conversion fee? I've never seen it on my citi...

 

[pontifex]

So even if I buy a book from a US seller, AbeBooks charges a conversion fee?

I don't recall seeing this previously.

 

[Brainonska511]

do many credit cards charge that foreign conversion fee? I've never seen it on my citi...

I didn't get hit with a foreign conversion fee, just a foreign transaction fee. The former is for transaction in another currency.

So even if I buy a book from a US seller, AbeBooks charges a conversion fee? I don't recall seeing this previously.

No. Abebooks is not the one charging the fee. The conversion fees (if not in USD) and foreign transaction fees come from the credit card company.

 

[Babbles]

I bought from them once before and do not recall getting hit with that fee.