09-12-2007, 12:02 PM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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This is great news concerning the dollar.
Could be headed to Phoenix for the month of December - finding affordable place to rent is the stumbling block. Might have to bring home a new tv and a set of golf clubs. 
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09-12-2007, 01:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Sort of related...but not entirely. I saw a thing on the news recently in which some credit cards are now charging a 2.5% fee for foreign currency transactions. So they make money by giving you a lower than market rate...and they ding you a 2.5% fee. Just something to keep in mind if you are going to the U.S. Check with your card to see if they're charging it, and if they are you might want to bring some extra cash with you. Afterall is there anything more fun than having 65 bills in your wallet and them amounting to like $800 because you somehow collected 32 $1 bills.
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Yeah, and apparently this is to be looked at by the finance ministry. This seems ridiculous to me...it is just safer, more convenient and easier to travel with a credit card. Not to mention that this is the core service of a bank...it is not costing them more money to do these transactions! Its a pure money grab, just like ATM fees.
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09-12-2007, 01:37 PM
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Originally Posted by Slava
Yeah, and apparently this is to be looked at by the finance ministry. This seems ridiculous to me...it is just safer, more convenient and easier to travel with a credit card. Not to mention that this is the core service of a bank...it is not costing them more money to do these transactions! Its a pure money grab, just like ATM fees.
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Yeah for things like Hotels, rental cars, other stuff, a credit card is usually the way they like you to pay for that stuff. I mean if you get a hotel for a week and rent a car in most cases thats around $1200 right there in which your're getting dinged an extra $30 for no good reason. Just reeks of a total cash grab.
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09-12-2007, 01:42 PM
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Basement Chicken Choker
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants.
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Bah! I kept around $400 US from when I went to Palm Springs in February, thinking I wouldn't bother to exchange it as I would just have to get more money next time I went down. I should have just gone with the 2nd hooker like the agency asked, now I feel like that money is melting away even as I type this!
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09-12-2007, 01:50 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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$0.9653, almost time for the markets to close.
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09-12-2007, 01:55 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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xe.com is another good site if you want to check currencies. They are pretty much up to date on all the major ones.
As of now, $1 CDN is worth about $0.65 EURO.
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09-12-2007, 02:20 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Dion
This is great news concerning the dollar.
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I'm one of the few that hates the dollar getting so high. Was great a few years ago when the difference was staggering. I run an online company and get paid in US currency. The more the dollar goes up, the more money I lose.
I long for the .65 to .70 cent days... 
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09-12-2007, 03:13 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Sort of related...but not entirely. I saw a thing on the news recently in which some credit cards are now charging a 2.5% fee for foreign currency transactions. So they make money by giving you a lower than market rate...and they ding you a 2.5% fee. Just something to keep in mind if you are going to the U.S.
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CIBC's been doing this for years, so I switched to TD before my three month trip this summer.
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09-12-2007, 03:17 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by SebC
CIBC's been doing this for years, so I switched to TD before my three month trip this summer.
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Did that make a difference? I thought all the credit card companies charged the extra surcharge on exchanges?
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09-12-2007, 03:19 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Edmonton
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.9648. I get mine from direct market access...i work in a brokerage 
Its not so much our dollar thats high though. Its more that the US dollar is the lowest its been in something like 15 years.
Maybe it will be good news for the US economy and give some help in terms of the trade deficits they have with every country. (Kind of like when our dollars low and Ontarios manufacturing industry booms).
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09-12-2007, 03:21 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2006
Location: @HOOT250
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Sort of related...but not entirely. I saw a thing on the news recently in which some credit cards are now charging a 2.5% fee for foreign currency transactions. So they make money by giving you a lower than market rate...and they ding you a 2.5% fee. Just something to keep in mind if you are going to the U.S. Check with your card to see if they're charging it, and if they are you might want to bring some extra cash with you. Afterall is there anything more fun than having 65 bills in your wallet and them amounting to like $800 because you somehow collected 32 $1 bills.
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My RBC Visa was charging me 1.0807 this weekend when I was down in Seattle...I dont know what the difference would have been but too me I cant stand American money so its not worth the small amount to worry about it and just throw it on Visa and pay it off when I get home.
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09-12-2007, 03:22 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OilKiller
I'm one of the few that hates the dollar getting so high. Was great a few years ago when the difference was staggering. I run an online company and get paid in US currency. The more the dollar goes up, the more money I lose.
I long for the .65 to .70 cent days... |
One of my university buddies publishes a magazine and he was cursing the high Canadian dollar. Every time the dollar increases, his advertising revenue paid in American dollars shrinks.
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09-12-2007, 03:45 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Originally Posted by getbak
Did that make a difference? I thought all the credit card companies charged the extra surcharge on exchanges?
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I can't make a direct comparison seeing as the exchange rates fluctuates... but 2.5% on say, $5000, is $125, so it's significant. CIBC rips you off more than most, that's why they had a class action lawsuit against them. They basically double dip... you lose money on the exchange rate, then they take an extra 2.5% on top of that. I also switched my chequing account for to the highest minimum balance one that gives waives the ATM withdrawal fee at all PLUS network ATMs, which CIBC does not offer.
Last edited by SebC; 09-12-2007 at 03:51 PM.
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09-12-2007, 03:53 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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One could also get a U.S. credit card for using in the States.
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09-12-2007, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: I'm right behind you
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Awesome. I'm heading to the U.S. this weekend for some shopping so I'll enjoy it even more now.
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09-13-2007, 09:55 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: South of Calgary North of 'Merica
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update:
Dollar @ .9681
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09-13-2007, 10:34 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by return to the red
update:
Dollar @ .9681
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Wow. That is a 30-year-high period. Previous high was .9672.
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09-13-2007, 10:37 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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0.9689
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09-13-2007, 10:39 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/09/13/dollar.html
Dollar hit 0.9694 this morning... perhaps it can make it to 0.97 before the end of the day?
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09-13-2007, 10:41 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2006
Location: @HOOT250
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At the duty free I was shopping at this week they were giving CND on par with the USD when you shopped there.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by henriksedin33
Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
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