Some advice please - from Americans in particular!

[Dixiecat]

We'd also offer firm prices in US dollars, so that the price you saw was the price you'd pay, in your local currency

Pretty sure that my local currency isn't US dollars.

[Nick Fiddes]

Pretty sure that my local currency isn't US dollars.

Quite possibly CAD too. But the pedant in me would have to point out that this is arguably at least relative, firstly because that currency is certainly MORE local to you geographically than a wee nation on the other side of the Atlantic, and also because I'd wager many more Canadians would be used to shopping for items in US dollars than in UK pounds. No? (I say this apologetically as a Scot who hates to be confused with the English, and so should be fully aware of such sensitivities...)

[ChubRock]

[McConnell Mor]

I ordered my first Kilt from you recently to be delivered in January 2011. I have ordered five 16 OZ 5yd kilts in the last 6 months from five different sellers. I had NO issues with the website and ordering from you , in fact, I was able to surf through the various Tartan choices and spend time contemplating on what I really wanted and in what weight, and from which mill. All in all so far I think Scotweb is fantastic. If the Kilt is the same, then you will be getting much more business from me.

[Lallans]

Quite possibly CAD too. But the pedant in me would have to point out that this is arguably at least relative, firstly because that currency is certainly MORE local to you geographically than a wee nation on the other side of the Atlantic, and also because I'd wager many more Canadians would be used to shopping for items in US dollars than in UK pounds. No? (I say this apologetically as a Scot who hates to be confused with the English, and so should be fully aware of such sensitivities...)

Canadians, at least in the form of me, are more used to ordering things from foreign countries that it would appear most Americans are. And through most of my life, the [party in power] kept the Canadian dollar down to 'Canuckistanian' levels (not a good thing; in the '90s the Loonie was coming to be known as "the Northern Peso".) This was however an artificial low, and once allowed to swim the loonie rose to parity with the greenback, give or take a few cents. All of this is to say that people like me who have lived under our protectionist governments are virtually immune to the horrors of unexpected or slightly higher than expected charges. I don't think a change such as is proposed would have much of an effect on my UK ordering, esp because Customs just lets most of my stuff from the UK through (and altho I have heard some horror stories, such as a $50 pair of triathlon shorts from the USA that turned into a $150 pair, that again seems to be a uniquely Canadian phenom).