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Aer Lingus website defaulting to sterling

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  • 31-05-2008 9:05pm
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    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭


    Is it just cos I'm in France at the moment (hence the site is reading me as being abroad) or has aerlingus.com started defaulting to Sterling and United Kingdom as the default country?


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    Brolly
    Subscribers Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭Brolly


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Is it just cos I'm in France at the moment (hence the site is reading me as being abroad) or has aerlingus.com started defaulting to Sterling and United Kingdom as the default country?

    My laptop does that at times even when I'm in Ireland. Not sure why, but it does. You can change the Country at the top of website anyway.


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    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    Is it just cos I'm in France at the moment (hence the site is reading me as being abroad) or has aerlingus.com started defaulting to Sterling and United Kingdom as the default country?

    Still euronated here!
    try aerlingus.ie?


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    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    yeah, tried aerlingus.ie and the same story... must be something to do with not being in Ireland at the moment!


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    Doctor DooM
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    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    yeah, tried aerlingus.ie and the same story... must be something to do with not being in Ireland at the moment!

    There's a coutry select thingy at the top of screen... (thank the poster before me :))


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    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    yeah I know, but I never experienced a situation where prices defaulted to sterling before in the 'ads' on the front page, thats all. I thought there was a good sale on initially!:o


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    Stepherunie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    Just defaulted to sterling there for me and i went with .ie so I'm guessing they may have changed there site.

    It automatically defaulted to UK as the region.


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    mcaul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭mcaul


    afaik you need to change the computer country setting to Ireland. Most bought from PC world, dixons, laptop shop have default as UK.


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    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    mcaul wrote: »
    afaik you need to change the computer country setting to Ireland. Most bought from PC world, dixons, laptop shop have default as UK.

    Nope, mine is set to the Netherlands and its still in English Pounds :/

    Would be nice if you can pay in Sterling though, exchange rate is quite nice at the moment :)


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    axer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭axer


    If ye are using firefox then more than likely if you check your firefox language settings you will see English United Kingdom as first language and english (en) as second.

    See here on how to change that on IE and FF etc:
    http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-priorities.en.php

    I tried it there by changing between UK and IE and it displayed the appropriate currency/country on the aerlingus site.

    That setting doesnt seem to matter on ryanair's website though which is still coming us as GB even though my language is set to en-ie and my IP definitely irish. :confused: Anyone know how they check?


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    craichoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭craichoe


    Man ... They should be using GEO IP Stuff .. Everyones using it.


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