Buying goods online in other countries can be a real money saver. It is for instance pretty easy for Europeans to buy in countries of the Europe Union without the fear of having to pay additional taxes which would have to be paid if goods were bought in the US or Asia.
Many central Europeans for instance like to shop in the UK, because the prices there are often cheaper even if additional shipping costs have to be paid. Check out the article How Customers Can Benefit From A Global Economy for additional information and recommendations.
One problem that customers encounter are that prices in other countries are often displayed in different currencies. It is possible to do a quick calculation to find out how much those goods are worth in their own currency but a tool that converts currencies automatically can be a real time saver.
Chrome Currency Converter is such a tool. The Chrome extension will automatically convert foreign currencies on web pages into a selected one. Supported are 37 different currencies that can be converted with one currency being the base currency that all others are converted to.
The extension detects prices in different formats, updates the currency rates every hour and can display the original prices next to the converted ones.
The Amazon UK website looks for instance like this with the extension set to convert prices automatically to Euro.
currency converter
Chrome Currency Converter is setup to work on all websites by default. It is possible to change this behavior so that it will only convert currencies on whitelisted domains.
Additional available options include displaying the origin price next to the converted one, rounding prices, selected the decimal separator and using a thousands separator.
A mini currency converter is available by pressing Alt-Shift-Ctrl-C, useful to convert prices that are not displayed on a web page.
mini currency converter
Chrome Currency Converter is an excellent extension for the Google Chrome browser, especially for users who like to buy goods in other countries, or work with web pages that show currencies.
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Things are cheaper in the UK?
Except maybe a pint of beer I have never encountered anything that is cheaper there…! On the other hand I ordered many things from Germany to be shipped to the UK.
Crodol, that’s funny. Just take a look at the video game prices on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
Fantastic-just what I was searching for for my Amazon review site.