Which sites? Name and shame.
For normal retail gift cards should do the job as long as they're available for what you want, but Bitrefill charges a premium for non lightning network payments.
I haven't come across price gouging too often but when I have it's usually travel related. It could be down to the agent simply piling money on top or they don't have the same margin muscle as the regular brokers like Opodo or wherever.
Either way they won't be getting a satoshi of my business. I ain't no charity.
I'd rather not give names for now (might give later, but I'm not convinced I should), but they were mostly websites either working with CoinPayments or local (Romanian) shops. All my attempts were fails.
It was a very smart attempt from them to deceive through CoinPayments though: on invoice, the amount was right. When I had to pay through CoinPayments however, there was one little big problem: I did not have enough funds in my wallet, although I knew I transferred about 3-4% more than needed to make sure I could cover any fees.
That's how, after an hour of calculating and trying to understand why the hell I need to add +15% more to my wallet to send the full payment, I found out that the shop had set the insane fee. Had I used my main address, I would've paid for the overpriced products without even noticing it.
