{"id":2971,"date":"2008-02-22T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:34:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-22T12:34:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T10:34:47","slug":"amazon-com-launches-amazon-currency-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/2971-amazon-com-launches-amazon-currency-converter.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com launches Amazon Currency Converter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Currency Converter allows international customers to purchase eligible items from the www.amazon.com website with greater ease and certainty.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since the launch of Amazon in 1995, we&#39;ve served tens of millions of customers all around the world,&rdquo; said Jeff Wilke, Amazon.com&#39;s senior vice president for North American retail.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;With the introduction of Amazon Currency Converter, we&#39;re making it significantly easier for our customers &mdash; regardless of where they live &mdash; to purchase from Amazon.com.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this feature&#39;s launch, international customers often didn&#39;t know the amount of their final purchase price until they received their payment card statement.<\/p>\n<p>Now customers will know the exact amount of their purchase, including relevant shipping charges, prior to completing their purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Currency Converter currently supports payment cards denominated in 11 currencies &mdash; which include the Australian dollar, Danish krone, euro, Hong Kong dollar, Japanese yen, New Zealand dollar, Norwegian krone, pound sterling, South African rand, Swedish krona, and Swiss franc &mdash; and the company expects to add more currencies over time.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com currently ships to more than 200 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com has launched a new feature on its website at www.amazon.com, allowing international customers to pay for their purchases in the currency of their payment card, instead of US dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}