thewinchester
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Well here's one for bad website programming. Because I can't stand 'ize', I use Firefox's en-uk build.
Last year when I went to renew by QP membership using Firefox, the prices were displayed with a Pounds symbol. I ended up renewing over the phone, thinking their might be a website bug and would end up paying almost double the renewal price.
Fast forward to today, where I was reminded of this issue after a SFSC friend joined the QP and had his app processed almost the same day. I logged in, and sure enough the pounds symbol was still displayed.
I decided to check this in another browser (Safari), and it displayed the prices in dollars.
Turns out that the servers Qantas are using for their website are looking at the browser configuration before determining the currency symbol - for this specific page only.
Just an odd thing I've noticed.
Last year when I went to renew by QP membership using Firefox, the prices were displayed with a Pounds symbol. I ended up renewing over the phone, thinking their might be a website bug and would end up paying almost double the renewal price.
Fast forward to today, where I was reminded of this issue after a SFSC friend joined the QP and had his app processed almost the same day. I logged in, and sure enough the pounds symbol was still displayed.
I decided to check this in another browser (Safari), and it displayed the prices in dollars.
Turns out that the servers Qantas are using for their website are looking at the browser configuration before determining the currency symbol - for this specific page only.
Just an odd thing I've noticed.
