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> If you sell something for £50 with £10 s&h, Yahoo suggests that you want
> $90.65 from your buyer, eBay $90.67 and Thomas Cook $105.03 including that
> extra £5 charge...
TC use the tourist rate. People who buy from me know I use the rate the BBC
quote as this is the _actual_ rate (updated evey 15 minutes). See:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/market_data/default.stm
Right now it gives $1.509 for every £1. TC is only $1.48 for every £1.
There are a few Currency Calculator out on the web which use the actual rate,
perhaps the most trusted one is bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currency/currcalc.html
Larry P uses an other trusted one, but I forget what it is right now.
Scott A
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| (...) Isnt the real issue what you are going to actually get in your gruby hands when you walk into a bank to exchange it? This is typically the tourist rate, as per Thomas Cook. So you give the guy it at $1.50, but only actually get $1.48. Roll on (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.services)
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| For those of us who ship LEGO abroad, if we want to look up exchange rates for payment, we can go to eBay or Yahoo, and probably plenty of other places too. However, those figures don't give you the true amounts that you would actually buy and / or (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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