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Originally Posted by nhawk

The sad thing is many US companies that do not have a presence in the EU are falling for it and collecting the tax. .

It's not the only trick that some US (but also Australians, Canadians etc) companies are doing to collect extra (but illegal money). The most common trick is to detect your location and shows theire prices in Euros but NOT exchanging them but rather showing the same price in euros.

For example a dating site (http://www.internationalcupid.com). Their normal one month Platinium membership costs $35.95. If they detect that you're belonging to a European country, the same membership with the same facilitities costs 35.95 Euros while the exchange rate is 32.92 Euros. Once I sent them a complain email stating that this is illegal asking them to refund me the difference otherwise I'll report then, and ...voilla in less than 24 (!!) hours not only they issued a FULL refund but they offered me a complimentary Platinium Membership for 3 months !!

But even known sites like pctools.com are doing the same