From: "Anthony R. Gold" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Refund from Amazon
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:32:27 +0000

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:59:01 GMT, "John"  wrote:

>>> Is this correct? Should I expect the same ammount in UK £s, or have I got
>>> caught by differing exchange rates and have to put it down to experience? I
>>> know it's not much, but it's the principal.
>>
>> You have certainly paid two sets of exchange commissions to your card
>> issuer and you may also have lost money through an exchange rate change.
>
>> But as you agreed to strike the deal in dollars and then later chose to
>> rescind it under the terms of Amazon's guarantee, I do not see that Amazon
>> could be expected to do anything more than they did.
>
> You did not recind the contract, as the goods ordered never arrived.

Maybe you need to review the meaning of rescind.

> Amazon should refund the amount in the same number of dollars as they
> charged.

They already did that.

> As this will then reverse the charge made to you card by egg, egg should
> then cancel their charges.

Why should Egg do that?  They are providing a service to the cardholder
under their terms and conditions and they have no duty to do it for free
(in cases which fall outside section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974)
when a third party lets the cardholder down.

> Take the matter up with Egg

Luckily the original poster seems to have a better grasp of his situation.

Tony