[CQ-Contest] Euro's & BS7H

[Rich K2WR]

Maybe that's why I went into engineering.   It's amazing what fatigue can 
do.  But I'd still buy the € 5 note for $6.50.

(For the people following this exchange and trying to find € in the 
character table, it's <Alt> 0128 with Num-Lock on, or just use the Windows 
clipboard.)

Rich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry" <w2up3 at verizon.net>
To: "Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org>
Cc: "Contest Reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>; <n2mm at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Euro's & BS7H


Rich,
$4 for 5€ ?  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 (€ 5 is the smallest value Euro note produced; € 1 and € 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, £, etc.  For example, if you send 
> it to me, I'll send you $4 and you'll only be out about 48¢.  Even better, 
> if you have a PayPal account, I'd pay you € 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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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA