LoL, of course exchanging money in CASH on the black market will be better than you going though an ATM using regular rates and checking the official exchange rates online, and it's not like they could help you change money from your bank account.BillyB wrote:Yes UK banks do offer USD accounts, they just take the currency conversion fee at a different point.OrangeDragon wrote:all of these references to currency exchange... do banks in uk/aus/ca no offer USD accounts? just curious, i was actually surprised cambodia did and recently found out china does as well, didn't know if that was an option in those countries. if so, it may be worth looking into to dodge the exchange charges.
I changed another 250 GBP at the same money changer yesterday and got a rate of 1.596 = 399 USD.
Quick calculation using my regular source of online FX rates indicated that I was paying just under 2 USD for that, fairly awesome, beats an ATM hands down.
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That's like comparing the price of a bus ticket to a plane ticket; those are totally different services!