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perfectstorm | 1 year ago

a reverse IP lookup should give you a good estimate and you can always ask the user to enter their address for more accurate price.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|1 year ago

Surely this is outdated advice in the world of "Protect your privacy with NordVPN" all over youtube.

rascul|1 year ago

> a reverse IP lookup should give you a good estimate

Not really, no.

perfectstorm|1 year ago

care to elaborate on that? also, it's not that hard to ask users to enter their shipping zip code to get more accurate prices. some websites do that already nowadays. my point is reverse ip lookup is a good enough starting point for the first estimation.

mr_toad|1 year ago

My home ISP has an exit point in a different city from where I live, so even without a VPN the IP lookup is only accurate to country level.

briandear|1 year ago

Nope. I hate when website use IP for anything, especially language selection. I travel all the time as well as use VPNs for work, and the idea that my IP represents anything other than what network I’m connecting from is just lazy UX.

alistairSH|1 year ago

Yes let’s keep a shitty UX for most users because of a few abnormal users. Be honest, frequent travel and shopping over VPN is an edge case here. The vast majority of users are shopping and buying from home with a VPN.

Or better yet, give municipalities an incentive to stop layering a kinds of taxes. Just have a VAT and be done with it.

ghaff|1 year ago

Yeah, I see a lot of advice on here that websites should make some guesses and you can always correct them later if it turns out they're wrong.

That seems like terrible advice. Oh, the price is $X. And once you've entered all your info "just kidding." I'd much rather know there are some things not included up-front if they're not reasonably factored in.

Symbiote|1 year ago

Do you often order things for delivery at home while you're travelling? Then the price will change when you provide the delivery address — just like it does now.

Meanwhile, 99% of people will see the price they can expect to pay.