Set default country according to IP

[swaldman]

Title:
Set default country according to IP

Area:
Shop

Summary:
When making purchases in the shop, it would be nifty if your country could be defaulted to a best guess based on IP.

Description:
It would be a minor convenience feature, and might involve quite a lot of work/hassle/complexity... but I thought I'd throw it out there in case somebody says "oh, that'd be easy actually" :-)

Drawbacks: Slowdown as the lookup is done; don't know whether this would be significant. Maybe there are some situations in which people would be offended by an incorrect guess?

Poll #13460 Set default country according to IP

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 46

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (13.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
23 (50.0%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (34.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[deborah]

it's like how when companies (in general) first started setting up call-center software that would automatically pull up caller ID-customer information on received calls, they would make it so that when you called up the customer service center, the customer support representative would answer the phone "Hello, Denise!"

And they realized people got INCREDIBLY creeped out about it and they stopped, even though as soon as you called from your home phone they knew perfectly well who you were and actually it saved time; when they were just saying "Hello, Denise," they were cutting out all that tedious "and could you spell your name" that they didn't actually need because of the caller ID tie-ins to the software.

It's a psychological thing.