Would it be possible somewhere in the future, to have the SRP currency automatically default to the locality of the profile? This could happen when creating a new profile or it could automatically change when changing the locality of a profile already in existence.

I know that when you try to contribute to the U.S. locality with an incorrect SRP currency, a note pops up on the contribution page telling you "The SRP denomination type is incorrect" and won't allow you to contribute the change. This however, doesn't seem to happen for any other locality, at least it doesn't for the Canadian locality. It would be nice if this could be implemented across all localities as well.

This may not seem like a big deal to a locality with a much larger pool of contributors, but speaking from a locality that actually has a small pool of regular contributors, it's a HUGE pet peeve of mine.

I can think of about eight regular Canadian contributors. Eight people I see on a regular basis contributing new Canadian profiles (DVD or Blu-ray), this includes myself. Of those eight, three of us on a regular basis contribute the correct SRP denomination. The other five, always, without fail, contribute Canadian locality profiles with a U.S. SRP (either because they've cloned the profile or because they simply can't be bothered to head to amazon.ca and look up the proper CAD SRP). I've even tried contacting them, all of them don't post in the forums (have a 0 post count) and have never opened, much less answered a pm. They also don't respond to no votes in any way.

It becomes quite a large pain in the @$$ when say, later on, a few months down the road, I purchase a new profile for myself, and add it to my collection, and see... "oh, it's got a U.S. SRP". So I go to look up the correct CAD SRP, however, because the profile is only new to me, and not newly released, it's next to impossible to find an accurate CAD SRP (we don't generally get press releases like the US does, and when we do, they're often hard to find). So then I have to a) leave the incorrect SRP in the online b) take a guess (risking no votes... and it's weird, because voters will come out of the woodworks to vote no on your contribution, but they're nowhere to be found to correct the info) c) lie and say I found proper documentation (which I would never do, but you get it).

So (holy mother of god someone shut me up!!!!!!!!  ), I would like to request this:

When creating a new profile, the SRP automatically defaults to the same currency as that of the profile.
When changing the locality of a profile, the SRP automatically defaults to the same currency as that of the profile.
OR expansion of "The SRP denomination type is incorrect" when making contributions if the SRP currency doesn't match the locality of the profile past the United States (including submissions for new contributions).

The last option would be the best as it would stop the problem dead in it's tracks (and it actually really is a problem), but if that couldn't be done, the first two options would be awesome.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to check all localities. I just tried changing the SRP of a Swedish locality profile from SEK to NOK and it doesn't give a beep. At least it explains how many incorrect changes routinely get past the screeners when it should be impossible...

Quoting Merrik:

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Would it be possible somewhere in the future, to have the SRP currency automatically default to the locality of the profile?

I'd love that option as in 99.5% of the cases, that would indeed be the currency paid in.

Quoting DJ Doena:

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Quoting KinoNiki:

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Unfortunately it doesn't seem to check all localities. I just tried changing the SRP of a Swedish locality profile from SEK to NOK and it doesn't give a beep. At least it explains how many incorrect changes routinely get past the screeners when it should be impossible...

The error only appears when you try to contribute it. Locally you can change it to whatever you want.

I was of course talking about contributions. What I put in my local db is my own business so it wouldn't make sense to have any restrictions there.

Expanding this rule to other localities and initial submissions would be great. I just finished removing a bunch of European Blu-ray from the US locality. I'd rather not have to do it again in a few months.

It's a minor nuisance for sure but like you said, it should be easy to avoid if the program used some kind of automatic filtering. But as an indicator as to the validity of the rest of the profile, it does at least alert me that something might not be quite right... Often the whole profile belongs in some other locality and if the user was alerted to this when contributing, it could perhaps be avoided.