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Contact steam support because you have been charged wrongly. If you used Australian money then it should not have charged you any transaction fee...
All games that can be purchased in Australia on steam now have a Australian price on them. If a game has not got a Australian price then you will not be able to buy it in Australia...
It's bad enough that the Australian pricing has increased cost of games by a decent amount, that's an argument for a different thread, but still having foreign transaction fees on top is ridiculous.
They are to me too, but if I add £100 to my account, I get £100.
Technically you still pay the exchange rate. You dont get charged extra ontop of the exchange.
This is from my bank's website:
Until the issue is solved, maybe paying through bank transmission or credit card is something to avoid completely. With something like Steam cards or whatever Australia may have that works like paysafecard at least the fees fall onto someone else.
NOT on the currency used
Being charged in AUD does NOT mitigate the foreign transaction fee
Because Valve is based in the USA, Australian banks charge you the foreign transaction fee regardless
Pricing in AUD provides price stability that doesn’t fluctuate based on currency conversion. Thus buying a game today will cost the same in AUD today as it will in Dec 2019. This wouldn’t be the case when they were using USD where buying a game back in January was 20% cheaper than now due to the drop in the AUD