Cross Border Fee??

Anyone knows what this is showing up on my credit card statement?

$0.75
$0.09
$0.08

just says

CROSS BORDER FEE SECOND LIFE

lol, you aren't serious are you?

EDIT: After second thought, this may be related to the fact that SL's banking is now done from the UK. See this thread:

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Oh most definately serious

thanks for the link.. I am surprised more people arent upset about this

No problem. At first I was thinking you were being charged for crossing sim borders LOL

That wouldn't be as lucrative.....because sim crossings aren't working so well lately!

That is probably because not everybody is from the USA. People in other countries are either used to those kinds of fees for all those payed services based in the USA, or their credit card company doesn't bill those in such a visible way anymore.

People outside the US will already have been paying extra commission for changing to US dollars everytime they pay any money, on top of anything LL charge so our friends across the Pond should actually be glad that they've been getting a better deal for so long.

Of course... there is also an argument that the exchange rate is exceedingly good at the moment... but that's not going to last...

Still not sure how this will affect us UK customers? Do we still get charged because our transaction is done through the US somehow? Haven't bought any Lindens for a while..... has anyone any experience?