Alesandro Ortiz 🇵🇷
@AlesandroOrtiz@infosec.exchange
Software Engineer. Security Researcher. Puerto Rican 🇵🇷. New Yorker. Bilingual. LG(B)TQ
. He/him. Focused on browser research. Glad to collaborate. Website: https://AlesandroOrtiz.com (Header 📷: roriv3ra on IG)
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@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk From a merchant's perspective, it's quite bad too, whether they use Adaptive Pricing or not.
Merchants can set fixed local currency price or use Adaptive Pricing.
If you saw the conversion rate and fee disclosure on the checkout page, then it's Adaptive Pricing. Stripe adds 2-4% fees to customers: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/currencies/localize-prices/adaptive-pricing?payment-ui=stripe-hosted#pricing
Merchants still must pay 1.5% fee for non-US cards, with or without local/adaptive pricing. (AFAIK this also applies to non-US Stripe merchant accounts.)
Merchants also pay 1% for currency conversion when not using Adaptive Pricing. (With Adaptive Pricing, cost is passed on to customers.)