When purchasing crysta from SE via paypal, the SE portal sends you to your local branch, so you pay in the local currency - Euro.

But the Ultimate Gamer Card seems available to you, and that's only available as an import online, which you do, and pay in the imported US$.

That's how your currency changed. I like how you found a way around that one.


On the Australia/NZ topic, the reason we are grouped with Europe is historic - we shared the PAL television frequencies of 50Hz, so in the old days our TV sets and applicable media (video games, video tapes, etc) were not compatible with the USA and Japan. That's why we were with Europe.

Of course with the rise of digital TV, the difference has become rather moot as both TVs and Consoles manage both types of signal now. Why don't they align AU/NZ with the US then? A very good question.