Rich,
$4 for 5â ? Either you did your math backwards, or you're exchange rate
and fees are a LOT worse than the bank's :.)
My advice to Carol is use it as a donation to the next DXped you QSL,
instead of greenstamps.
73,
Barry W2UP
Rich K2WR wrote:
> Carol:
>
> I certainly agree with the previous commenters who suggested you avoid
> changing such a low amount (or, for that matter, any amount) at a bank due to
> the high fees. Also, Andrei is probably correct that the value of the Euro
> relative to the U.S. dollar will continue to rise. Certainly the U.S.
> government is not doing anything to prevent the market's devaluation of the
> dollar... it's more important to the government (and, arguably, to the U.S.
> economy) that Boeing stays price-competitive with Airbus, than whether I can
> still afford a hotel room in Finland.
>
> You could:
> 1. Just hold onto it as Andrei suggests... who knows, you may receive more of
> them (â 5 is the smallest value Euro note produced; â 1 and â 2 are
> coins).
> 2. You could "sell" it to someone, a ham or otherwise, who visits Europe
> often enough to hold onto a few Euros, Â, etc. For example, if you send it
> to me, I'll send you $4 and you'll only be out about 48Â. Even better, if
> you have a PayPal account, I'd pay you â 5 via PayPal and I think you'd get
> a little more than $4. But it's unlikely you'd come out behind by just
> holding onto it for now.
>
> 73, Rich K2WR
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