Stupid Australian $

[k.wong23]

I use credit card through Paypal. Didn't know you could use card direct. Pretty sure you can't. Also, I change the conversion options (doable after choosing credit card as funding source) to let my card do the conversion which is best because Paypal gouges conversion rates.

Thanks for the tip will have to have a look at it next time I make a payment on paypal

However isn't there a fee that is paid for a non AUD transaction on a credit card?

[iceburn]

k.wong..that depends on your credit card bank/company you're with

[Golden Phoenix]

However isn't there a fee that is paid for a non AUD transaction on a credit card?

I have one of those Visa debit cards. I can use it as a credit card but it takes it straight out of my bank account. In any transaction where it isn't AU$, it adds 2% onto it. It's not too bad, just a little under what paypal adds, but you get the added bonus of paypal not getting anything.

We should tell Robotkingdom to trade in aussie dollars.

Well we collectively order enough from them, maybe they could do like an Ozformer discount or something

[1orion2many]

Or... as someone suggested last time, have a stripper on my table...

UUmmmm I don't know if you dancing around naked will attract anymore customers.

[Zippo]

Under 60c US here in New Zealand. Making my purchases in the weekend at HTS more expensive as I don't get charged until 4-5 days after purchase (i.e now)

Though the Ausatralian dollar is getting back to what it should be (87c) compared to what it was a few months ago at 79c.

[STL]

It would appear that rationality finally struck the Aussie dollar again. Let's see where it goes by the time we wake tmrw.

[llamatron]

It would appear that rationality finally struck the Aussie dollar again. Let's see where it goes by the time we wake tmrw.

It's back up over 70c as I type this.

[Kyle]

It's back up over 70c as I type this.

Whew...

[griffin]

Not any more. It's back down to 67c.

The yen is even worse to the AU$, with us losing almost half the value of our currency to it (from about 110y 2 months ago to 66y now).

[griffin]

Looking at this website that archives exchange rates:
http://www.gocurrency.com/index.htm
exactly 3 months ago (July 10th) to now (Oct 10th)

US$ 0.96 - 0.67 (down 29 or 30.2%)
£ 0.48 - 0.39 (down 9 or 18.75%)
¥ 103 - 66 (down 37 or 35.9%)
EU€ 0.60 - 0.49 (down 11 or 18.3%)
NZ$ 1.27 - 1.12 (down 0.15 or 11.8%)

We're even weakening to the NZ$, how pathetic does that make the AU$ if a 'more troubled economy' like NZ is doing better than we are on the cross-rates.
Every currency I checked had the AU$ dropping by 10-30% in the last 3 months, suggesting that it was either overvalued before (July was the peak) or now just unwanted.
Hell, even Zimbabwe is probably doing better than us...