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I like how you've used my IP address to tell me that delivery will be free 'even to the United Kingdom'.

May I suggest using the same code to also convert the price from $23.95 to the users local currency as this will help increase conversions. £15.10 feels a lot less than $23.95!

Other than that, great idea and I wish you all the best!

I get a similar 'even to Australia' message, and damn do I appreciate it. As an Australian I find myself avoiding online purchases because shipping costs routinely run more expensive then what I want to buy, unless you want to wait 30+ days for your item. It's a fantastic personal touch that just makes me instinctively like the service and want to show my friends.

That's a great idea, I get this gut feeling/fear though that it might introduce some extra complexity. I might be able to do that at least for EUR/USD/GBP but I suppose have avoided it until now to keep things simple. Will have to think that through more.

Sure. I see your PayPal subscription is $23.95 per month - which is fine, there's no need to change that. I'm just thinking from a UI perspective you could try using money.js (1) to show to the user the current price in their local currency:

Mystery sweets from Japan for £15.10 ($23.95 USD) / month

(1) http://josscrowcroft.github.com/money.js/

Hope he has an exclusion list for countries the post office don't post to. Whether it is political or temporary due to natural disaster.

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