ericamho's comments

Would there be anyway to link to the original article instead of Business Insider which republished it? (says author of original article)

Just wanted to point out -- since I actually wrote that original article -- is that I wrote it for a general audience. We have existing relationships with a lot of media partners like BI so sometimes I write for their audience in mind to cull traffic back to the site, which has a way more niche audience (but I still like to make it as accessible as possible to the general public). Depending on where I'm trying to garner press from, I'll write with different audiences in mind. (...if anyone's interested in the business/media/pr aspect of it all.)

Apologies if I insulted anyone's intelligence but that wasn't the point. COP, by far, is not a standard or major currency. How do you think my mother is going to react when I talk to her about Guatemalan quetzales? She, does, however understand Euros but for the purposes of this example, which is a Colombian flight, it made no sense to use a different currency.

I've used it often; results tend to be variable. Sometimes it's $0, $5, and sometimes I've got $100+.

I find that most of the credit card issuers don't automatically convert to USD -- this usually happens more on the merchant end. The problem is that you don't know if the online merchant is doing this or not... it's a lot easier, say, if you're sitting down at a restaurant and find it happening.

So meta of me to find this on Hacker News! I run Map Happy, and yeah, we have a syndication relationship with BI. Thanks for being so kind to link back to the original piece... though it would have been nice to see our site headlined instead of the BI piece. :)

Obviously, there are a lot of strategic PR rationales behind it.