1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Jan 15th 2011, 11:30 pm

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freebo

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Originally Posted by paulry

His response was: "I'm afraid not sir... due to the recent drop in the value of the AUD our supplier has passed on price increases so our margins are now way too tight".

They must think we where born yesterday...

We brought bikes with us but if we hadn't I'd be importing, like many discretionary/luxury goods here bikes here seem to be marked up massively.

Jan 15th 2011, 11:54 pm

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Originally Posted by bcworld

How ridiculous....AUD is about 2% off multi decade highs! I assume you left quicksmart!?

yeah and the greedy retailers trying to blame online shopping because people can now buy bargains with strong $!

retailers have been coining it in with overseas purchased goods over the last year or so and still raising prices with inflation up!

Jan 16th 2011, 12:28 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

35 dollars for a book in a shopping mall a bloody disgrace...

Jan 16th 2011, 12:30 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Hopefully the chickens will soon come to roost big time on the greedy retailers

Jan 25th 2011, 10:11 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

Ouch...there goes GBPs rebound!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12272717

Jan 25th 2011, 10:17 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Originally Posted by bcworld

Ouch...there goes GBPs rebound!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12272717

It's only because we leave for bris in 6 weeks

And need to exchange

Jan 25th 2011, 10:44 am

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lancastrian48

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

Bad Uk data, pound downwads again me thinks

Jan 25th 2011, 11:33 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Originally Posted by lancastrian48

Bad Uk data, pound downwads again me thinks

Oh look, and it has.

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Jan 27th 2011, 5:26 pm

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al_and_lucy

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

Seems to have recovered from the bad news

Aug 9th 2011, 3:01 am

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paulry

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

Bump!

Aug 9th 2011, 3:30 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Bump!

Stop being smug..... it wont last..... (Surely once the whole city of London has burnt to the ground in a fit of anarchic civil unrest someone will consider that perhaps GBP isnt the best currency to be holding)

Aug 9th 2011, 4:22 am

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Re: 1.93's A$ to the Pound!!!

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Originally Posted by DadAgain

Smug? Not at. It's a lot more than just my holiday spending money that's been affected by the pound's slump. You're worrying about how your luxury spending's going to be affected by a small fluctuation while this last couple of years I've had to watch my lifes savings being decimated. And you accuse me of being smug?