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Post by Broob » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:00 am

Just booked a trip to the US - the exchange rate on hotels etc is killing me!
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Post by mthibodeau » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:06 am

and not to be too depressing, but your credit card company will probably also charge you a fee above and beyond the exchange rate for foreign currency (unless you have one of the few that waives this surcharge), and the cash exchange rate (ie going to the bank and withdrawing us dollars) is worse than the posted rate as well
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Post by mikeorr » Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:08 am

Agreed x100. I leave for a trip to Denver in 2 days :(
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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:42 pm

Credit card exchange rate was about 35% last week when I bought a piece of software. Brutal.
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Re: Exchange Rate

Post by mikeorr » Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:28 am

Figures, it hits the lowest point in a decade the day before I leave... ugh. Going to put my expenses on my US$ Visa card and hope that the exchange rate is better when I go to pay it off :)
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Re: Exchange Rate

Post by LiverDance » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:10 pm

I just got an exchange of 0.65 in the south of France! Fawk


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