Re: [OT] What makes a good miniatures web site

At 03:49  5/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Samuel Reynolds wrote:
>
> > Prices in US dollars.
>
>I don't know about other manufacturers, but we calculate prices in
other
>currencies on the day we receive an order, using the current exchange
>rate. So any prices in anything other than sterling on the website
would
>be approximate at best unless the website is a proper database setup
>which can calculate exchange rates on the fly - and ours isn't.
>
>And there are other countries in the world besides the US - if we were
>to put up prices in the local currency of every customer we sell to,
>there'd be no room left on the page for PICTURES ;-)
>
>Tony

I have seen websites that ask for the currency and give you a
approximate price

http://www.hlj.com/

Hobby link Japan springs to mind the prices are in Yen, but you state
the 
currency and it sends you to another page

http://www.xe.net/cgi-bin/ucc/convert

giving the price in the required currency.

Derek

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