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If you need Business Cards, shop around online, and be especially on the look out for the great American rip-off of Europeans!

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I need a new supply of business cards, so I went back to Vistaprint, a company I have used for at least ten years, and maybe twice as long, I don’t remember, but I also don’t remember ever using anyone else.

Anyway, the last ten years, I have been living in Thailand and so have been ordering from the USA to avoid UK VAT as I am living abroad. Everything always worked well.

Today, I am in Europe and so ordered through their Spanish website. Well, actually, I designed the card on the US site and they quoted me $9.99 for 250 business cards. However, their software detected that I am in Spain and asked whether I would like to switch to ‘their Spanish company’ (presumably in order to save postage). I agreed.

Swindle by VistaPrint

Exactly the same order suddenly became £14.99 (not even 14.99€), so I contacted their support desk to ask why.

VAT and postage, she explained.

However, £14.99 is about $22 and 20% of $9.99 is only $2. Not onlt that, but they hadn’t even applied postage to either order since I hadn’t told them where to send to it to yet.

She could not explain why there was the price hike, so I cancelled my account. I soon found a European firm that was doing the same 250 cards with free lacquering and a free card case (first order only) for 3.99€, which is less than $5.

I will give you the name of the company after I have seen the quality of my cards.

The Great American Rip-off of Europeans

This double pricing by American companies ripping off the Europeans by charging them higher prices goes on too much and we should not put up with it. Microsoft does it all the time. In Thailand, I wanted to take up MS’s offer of the online Office Suite for, I think, $4.95 per month, but when I pushed the Order Now button, their software recognised me and changed the price to £4.95 or 4.95€, if I wanted to pay in Euros. However, both European rates are far higher than the dollar rate.

Again, I cancelled the order and told MS never to contact me again.

All the best,

Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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