US ($) Currency Thread 1 (closed - use thread 2)

Baz_2

The Tesco at Clifton Moor at York has just opened a currency booth and are giving out $1.58 per pound at the moment as an opening offer.

Doubt it will help anyone but just in case.

JMU-95

ring crown currency up for a better rate than is posted online. Ordered on Monday at rate of $1.54 for beginning of march, and when I rang up to ask them something, the girl on the phone said she could give me a better rate of $1.596, so she cancelled my original order and issued a new one at the better rate. Quite pleased with $1.60 in present times.

bargaindoctor

i'm off stateside in jan. is there any way i can get it close to $1.6? called crown and they said they have nothing left

motodop

Can i presume that using this 'crown' service is more economical than using a Nationwide FlexATM card once on US soil?
Moto

bargaindoctor

i think nationwide will depend on exchange rate at the time. i have an abbey zero so may use it if the rates change drasitcally while i'm there and just hold onto the dollars

steveo3002

motodop wrote: »

Can i presume that using this 'crown' service is more economical than using a Nationwide FlexATM card once on US soil?
Moto

cant predict that can you ...crown offers a good rate if you order in advance , but who know what will happen next week the rate may shoot up or down

jiteshchohan

With a week to go till the big day me and the mrs decided to take the plunge today and start getting a few quotes for $$$. Majority of places are trading at ~1.46 so i decided to be clever and tell the lady i've been quoted 1.52 elsewhere. :cool:
So she casually replied...well i will beat that quote by a cent :eek: so as a result just got mine today @ 1.53 ....£5000 = $7650. :money:

Im very happy, as since the drop it has alays been lingering around the mid one forties. If it helps anyone ask your local travel agents to price match against The Co-Op Travel in Shirley Birmingham (thats where i bought mine) ..... Seven days and counting!!

FEvans

that sounds a bit to good to be true as the interbank rate is only 1.49 to the pound.

jiteshchohan

FEvans wrote: »

that sounds a bit to good to be true as the interbank rate is only 1.49 to the pound.

Well like most of us on this site we are only here to exchange information to benefit others...Im happy that i got that rate so maybe you want to check out the validity of the information provided before you comment next time.

FEvans

all i am saying that this must have been an error as there is no reason why they would offer you a rate at which they are making a loss.

the markets would have closed on friday at 1.49 and then reopened sunday evening.

if you got the currency Saturday then they would have been making a loss selling to you at that rate.

if you had that rate then well done but its a one off.