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Old Sep 4, 2003 | 11:36 am
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csb
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
You are still getting scammed, $900 should yield €830.07 on todays exchange rate.</font>
Are you talking about the daily "spot rate?" Nobody gets that other than banks and very large international trade companies. My supplier invoices generally run from 10K to 35K, and I've been told that I'm nowhere near the league where I would buy foreing currency at the spot rate.
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