I don't have Paypal, so I wouldn't know. I guess cos I so seldomly shop online I've never really thought about this -- but usually what I charged on my credit card in AUD isn't too far off online estimates. <shrugs>

Quote Originally Posted by Sinnertwin View Post
St.George has the AUD at 0.8565 while Paypal has it at 0.8639
So that $155.90 now looks like $180.45AUD if you payed with PayPal or through the bank-ad the foreign exchange conversion fee of a few dollars from some.
Throw in the $179 that target has it listed for & potential sales % off & there really isnt all that much of a reason to buy online right now.
Even if it works out to be $180 -- okay, not as great as I'd initially hoped, but still acceptable because then at least it's on par with that sale price, and you have the advantage of having the toy a bit earlier without extra cost. If the toy exceeds the $200 RRP then I'll be less than enthused.

To me, I feel like I've paid too much for my TakTOM MP Soundwave because including the cassettes, even at preordered price I paid nearly $200 all told, whereas the local Hasbro version will cost $150. So I paid a $50 "impatience tax" just to own this toy a few months earlier, which really isn't worth it. But of course, I did it because I preordered the TakTOM version before news of the Hasbro version came out; had I known I would've waited.

I've preordered Generations Metroplex because the price incl. shipping looked to be cheaper than RRP here. So long as it doesn't exceed that RRP I'll be satisfied. The one time I got seriously burned by a falling Aussie Dollar was when I got Encore Metroplex and eHobby GADEP (Guardian Robot) -- those toys came out around the time of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis which saw the AUD massively plummet, meaning that I ended up paying about DOUBLE the expected price for those toys purely due to loss of currency value through the exchange rate! Maybe the AUD just gets wobbly legs whenever a Metroplex is released!