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Money conversion.

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Ok I'll admit that I'm not that good at math but this seems wrong to me and maybe someone can help me understand this money conversion stuff. I ordered some parts from Dave, Forgebear, (EXCELLENT prices and service btw!) total cost of the parts shipped to me is 115.65 in UK pounds now when I go to money conversion sites and paypal they tell me that 1 US dollar is equal to .62 of a UK pound. Now this is where I get confused, when I plug in the total cost of 115.65 UK pounds it tells me that equals 191.32 U.S. dollars. WTF? This doesn't make any sense to me at all! If .62 pounds equals 1 dollar then HOW in the WORLD does that add up to 115.62 being 191.32 dollars? ??? I'm SERIOUSLY confused any help would be awesome guys thanks.
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essentially the US $ is 38% less than the Pound Sterling so your cost will be raised by that 38%.
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more or less one dollar = 60 pence ,,so to make it simple 2 dollars = £1 so the m50 would have cost you $415 more or less + plus postage not cheap[ and the thread is locked]......wot wot ......
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That can't be right, I worked out if Jack bought the M51 for £220 at 0.62 to the dollar he would of paid
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jackalope wrote:Ok I'll admit that I'm not that good at math but this seems wrong to me and maybe someone can help me understand this money conversion stuff. I ordered some parts from Dave, Forgebear, (EXCELLENT prices and service btw!) total cost of the parts shipped to me is 115.65 in UK pounds now when I go to money conversion sites and paypal they tell me that 1 US dollar is equal to .62 of a UK pound. Now this is where I get confused, when I plug in the total cost of 115.65 UK pounds it tells me that equals 191.32 U.S. dollars. WTF? This doesn't make any sense to me at all! If .62 pounds equals 1 dollar then HOW in the WORLD does that add up to 115.62 being 191.32 dollars? ??? I'm SERIOUSLY confused any help would be awesome guys thanks.
Well $191.32 USD x 0.62 would give you 118 British Sterling. It also depends on whether you use credit card or not there will be a 3% service charge for that so sounds pretty correct to me.

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Re: Money conversion.

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Ok guys my dumb ass figured it out last night while trying to fall asleep a US dollar is worth only 62 cents(or whatever) of a British pound.

Kinda depressing to think about really.
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Not for us it is'nt. @) shaun
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jarndice wrote:Not for us it is'nt. @) shaun

Sure we bail out the WHOLE damn world and then have to take it in the pooper, not fair. :thumbdown:
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Dave has most of his stuff on EBAY... usually EBAY US will do the conversion...so they will post the converted price for you...It's not rocket science Jack...you can also use Google convert :haha:

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ALPHA wrote:Dave has most of his stuff on EBAY... usually EBAY US will do the conversion...so they will post the converted price for you...It's not rocket science Jack...you can also use Google convert :haha:

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Dave's getting me parts that he doesn't usually carry so no Ebay. And yes I know its not rocket surgery I just wasn't getting it last night, I guess I was more tired then I thought.
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