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If you can’t know the price, you don’t display a wrong price, simple. You either geo-locate, or maybe put the minimum E911?

In EU these kind of sheenings never happen.

Airplane sites tried with payment fees, adding 40/50€ for ALL providers. EU changed the law that the price has to include the fee for at least 1 payment… So if the cheapest is paypal at 30€, they have to add 30€ to the price.

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>In EU these kind of sheenings never happen.

Maybe because it's more fragmented in terms of language/culture, so you don't have ad campaigns that span both ends of the continent? The wider prevalence of unitary governments (as opposed to federal systems) also help.

For county-level fees (sales tax, E911, several more), the ad only has to "span" county boundaries ...

So I'm in Santa Fe, and I see an ad for internet service. But I live in Rio Rancho (50 miles/80km away). The E911 fee is different in both counties. Geo-locating isn't going to help.

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