Interesting. I've been noticing firesteels for $5 or less under some of the lower-end brand names, and wondered if they were worth buying.
The firesteel I use the most is some no name one I picked up in local outdoor store, works just fine.
Did DX charge a fee for international money exchange without asking you?
They charged me a small fee. If they're going to do stuff like that, then I'll give my business elsewhere. The whole point of using DX is too get stuff dirt cheap even though there's zero customer service, but the transactions have to be dirt cheap and honest.
Better check your credit card company agreement (you know the pamphlet comes with the card that nobody reads), I bought a lot of times from DX and never charged anything extra.