More Fun And Games With Skype
Just added some credit to my Skype account so that I could make some calls home to the UK. Even though the account is registered in the UK with a UK payment address, the site insisted that I pay in AU$ (guess they must be taking my location by IP address, a very stupid thing for them to do considering that many people using their services will be expats) which was compounded by the fact that Paypal doesn’t use AU$ as one of its currencies, so Skype converted the amount to Euro for me before charging. As I keep my Paypal balance in US$ Paypal converted the Euro amount to US$ before charging my UK bank in UK£.
I wonder how much ‘value’ I was left with after being scalped on each of those conversions?
When making the call I noticed the price was $0.36 per min ~ with my Vodafone mobile I get 10 mins to the UK for $3. Somehow I think I might not be using Skype too much again.
Related Link: games would be a great addition to Skype, wouldn’t they? Well, my daughter loves playing these free online games. I kind of do, too!