Australia credit card to buy products from malaysia online store

Question

If I use my australia credit card to shop malaysia online store, how does it gonna charge me ? By what currency and what rate ?
For example, I am goin back to malaysia next week, I'm gonna use my australia credit card to buy macbook pro on malaysia online apple store. How does the charges go ?

Answer 1

The U.S. Store only lets you purchase for items mailed to a physical street address in the U.S. I suspect you'll have to have a physical street address in Malaysia to ship it to, and the credit card will convert Australian currency to the Malaysian currency equivalent at the time the card gets charged, but will appear as an added charge in Austrailian currency.  There is often a fee for currency conversion too.  Make absolutely certain the Malaysian store has enough stock to ship it to you in Malaysia within your time there, or you may have to have someone ship it to you from Malaysia.  You may need to also declare it as a custom charge depending on how expensive the purchase is, when you get back to Australia. Many credit cards have a cap of how big a purchase you can make, and ask you call their call center to temporarily raise the cap until your purchase is finished.  Otherwise the charge won't go through.