NO DON'T it's a subject close to my heart, especially with regard to exchange rates.
For the longest time, the Aussie dollar has basically been shit. I'm talking 60-odd US cents to buy one Aussie dollar. I took more than $200 to the UK and didn't even get a hundred quid for it. I think I got about 70 or 80 from memory.
Now tho? We're better than the American dollar, and have been for a good year or more. Buy something from America worth US$40 and you're only pending AU$38 or thereabouts, even with foreign currency conversions. AND YET. Unless you're directly buying something from overseas yourself, like through Amazon (if they SHIP here, omfg) or ebay or etsy, then it doesn't make a difference. A book, for example, will still have under the barcode on the back that the RRP is US$15, blatantly obvious and unconcealed, and yet the price tag will still be $25. IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT ANYMORE, PRICKS.
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Date: Thu, Mar. 15th, 2012 04:09 am (UTC)For the longest time, the Aussie dollar has basically been shit. I'm talking 60-odd US cents to buy one Aussie dollar. I took more than $200 to the UK and didn't even get a hundred quid for it. I think I got about 70 or 80 from memory.
Now tho? We're better than the American dollar, and have been for a good year or more. Buy something from America worth US$40 and you're only pending AU$38 or thereabouts, even with foreign currency conversions. AND YET. Unless you're directly buying something from overseas yourself, like through Amazon (if they SHIP here, omfg) or ebay or etsy, then it doesn't make a difference. A book, for example, will still have under the barcode on the back that the RRP is US$15, blatantly obvious and unconcealed, and yet the price tag will still be $25. IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT ANYMORE, PRICKS.