There's a certain online store in the UK that i want to buy some records from. i live in America.

My question is has anyone bought records from online sites in another country? do i have to go through a currency exchange, or can I bill my credit card even though it's different currency? Please help!

You can buy from any online store wherever as easily as you were shopping in your local store. Or so it has been for me anyway. Only the shipping/postage might get expensive from Europe to the US so you'd better get more records at once to make it "cheaper".

Usually if the currency is different from yours, the transfers within your bank happen with your own currency (which you can see in your bank note), just changed to equal the amount of the other currency you see in the store; your credit card gets charged with your own currency for the worth it is in the store, but will be changed to the other along the way so the store gets the payment as their currency.

For example: If a record costs £5.99 in a store and you want to buy it. £5.99 is about $10.80 so your credit card gets charged for $10.80 but along the way the payment gets changed to £5.99 to be more appropriate for the store. In your bank note you will see $10.80 charged from your account.

Quite a mess but i think this is somewhat how it works. It all depends on the bank, actions might differ a bit so i can't be 100% sure how it works. You can always contact the Uk store and ask, i'm sure they will explain it to you easier.

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