Just a cost of doing business...
God knows, the sheer cost of all the legal, governmental and financial obligations that the UK or EU put on an American company have got to be worth something extra. Also your money is worth more in your country than the US because there is usually another 5% fee for currency exchange from pounds to dollars here that affects some transactions. A credit card fee for International transactions from different banks may have applied as well and that could have been a good 8% extra.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
