{"id":190,"date":"2009-01-07T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-01-08T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T23:05:54","slug":"skype-auto-recharge-and-currency-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/skype-auto-recharge-and-currency-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype Auto-Recharge and currency changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checking my PayPal details today, I found that three of my most recent payments for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a> involved a dollar to euro conversion. This surprized me, since quite a while ago I had changed the currency of my Skype account from euros to dollars to match the currency of my PayPal account, in order to avoid conversion losses. <\/p>\n<p>When I went to my Skype account I found that my currency indeed was set to dollars, however the recharge amount was set to &euro;10. Auto-recharge is a convenient feature. With it turned on, whenever your account credit balance drops below $2, an automatic purchase using your credit card or PayPal account takes place to top it up again. As I use SkypeOut for all my international phone calls to landlines and mobile phones and also occasionally for call-forwarding from a SkypeIn number to my mobile phone (especially when I&#8217;m travelling), it helps me never to run out of Skype credit.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, changing your Skype currency does not change your account recharge currency (or amount). What&#8217;s more, the system would only let me pick a recharge amount of &euro;10 or &euro;25. <\/p>\n<p>The only way to switch recharges from euros to dollars is to cancel auto-recharges and then re-enable them. However, the only way to enable recharging appears to be by topping up your balance &#8211; you&#8217;ll have to spend some money! <\/p>\n<p>Thus if you have changed your Skype currency from euros to dollars and want to use auto-recharge in the new currency, you will first have to cancel the recharge and then buy another $10 worth of Skype credit, with the &#8220;enable auto-recharge&#8221; option checked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking my PayPal details today, I found that three of my most recent payments for Skype involved a dollar to euro conversion. This surprized me, since quite a while ago I had changed the currency of my Skype account from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/skype-auto-recharge-and-currency-changes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}