Re:Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Com...
by crazygringo on Sunday October 15, 2023 @12:20PM
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No they don't.
That clearly shows rates varying between countries.
Not within a country.
Which is fine, because prices are generally advertised within a country, not Europe-wide.
Re:Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Com...
by vel0city on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:36PM
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You're showing tax variations across countries. I see tax variations within a couple of miles!
Re:Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Com...
by hotpotamus on Sunday October 15, 2023 @12:18PM
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I'm curious where you have ever seen a national advertisement for a hotel room that includes a price; it is not something I've observed but perhaps my chauvinism has blinded me. That said, do you think that a hotel company is able to calculate the price of a room when I go onto their online portal and request a price for a particular location and date?
Re:Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Com...
by ghaff on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:32PM
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The usual strategy is to nationally advertise "as low as" some base $$ amount. And then you go into the online portal and come up with an actual price for an actual date that (hopefully) includes all taxes and fees--and is probably a fair bit more.
If European countries chose to have VAT that varied geographically within a country, they wouldn't be able to build it into the price either.
Why you think it has anything to do with "national intelligence" is quite beyond me.