Is the dollar f'ing with your internet shopping?

[jude_smith]

Cause it sure is for me. I'm from Australia and our dollar is at around 67c it was worse so I shouldn't complain. The main thing for me tho is I'm a lot more hesitant to cop online as now the risk is greater (i.e. not happy with fit, quality etc.). Is it messing with anyone else?

[superBobo]

yes! The US dollar has gone up alot compaired to the Swedish Crown (or perhaps the crown has gone done, being a small currencey), so everything on US ebay has become more expensive for me.

[jude_smith]

Sucks huh, so have you laid back on your spending then? My sis just moved back from the Uk and is about to change her money back over she's loving it!

[btbam]

trust me, my situation is worse then yours.

Hope its better sooner then later

[jude_smith]

trust me, my situation is worse then yours.

How come? Due to a weak dollar or just all this financial bullshit as it is?

[M4TM]

i was just online shopping on some OZ and UK/EURO sites... good to have USD for once (at least in the past few years). sucks for JPN shopping though.

[jude_smith]

Ha yeah it's flipped back to being a bit better for you Americans. Someone was telling me the other day that the Aus dollar had gotten quite strong against the yen wish I'd known I'd of gone here and here now only if I could read japanese...

[Kesnel]

The pound has bombed against the dollar. I want the exchange of 2:1 back for the bargain that buying from the US used to be.

[jude_smith]

Kesnel you guys would still be getting a pretty decent price tho yeah? Again my sis went to NY with her boy straight from London about a year and a half ago and just went mental. Damn she's had some good luck.

[Manathat]

I didn't notice the dollar went up until browsing oki-ni last week. I was pretty surprised when I converted the currency and it came out in the dollars favor. Oki-ni got business that night.

[Kesnel]

The pound has bombed against the dollar. I want the exchange of 2:1 back for the bargain that buying from the US used to be.

Oh yeah, the rate is still ok; around $1.55 - $1.60 to the pound. We've just been been spoiled when in the first half of this year you were getting upwards of $2.10 to the pound.

[btbam]

How come? Due to a weak dollar or just all this financial bullshit as it is?

Most of the Labels i intend on bringing to Perth/Australia are international. Hopefully it keeps improving so come jan/feb i aint in that bad of a situation

[jude_smith]

btbam, for real looking at importing yeah? Opening a boutique or just doing the distro? What labels you looking at? I could imagine the dollar going down has fucked with margins considerably still no reason not do it tho. I feel you Kesnel you get spoilt and when shit evens out it's hard get used to paying what you did back in the day.

[Trillerblake]

Yeah, the $ was x10 a month back, now it's almost at 13. It was easy at 10, I just added an extra 0 to the price, now I have to get my calculator

[jude_smith]

I usually use XE for any conversions. However I just added a currency converter widget which has been helpful... in realising I can't afford shit.

[napoleon]

Ha yeah it's flipped back to being a bit better for you Americans. Someone was telling me the other day that the Aus dollar had gotten quite strong against the yen wish I'd known I'd of gone here and here now only if I could read japanese...

I wish. For the last few years until about July this year you would get more than 100 Yen for the Aussie dollar and buying anything from Japan was still expensive. It's now 65! I don't even bother looking at rakuten or zozo anymore.

[jude_smith]

Sounds like I heard real wrong then. Damn.

[zimmerman]

i used to do about 70% of my shopping for clothes via the web (usually try on in stores and then order for cheaper from US websites)...now with the Cdn. dollar down, i've had to cut down.

the only way i get around it is by selling stuff in paypal and getting back US funds, so i purchase again in US dollars.

luckily there's a few quality canadian retailers that i deal with (nomad, roden grey). but it totally kills denim purchases from self edge, where duty and the exchange can add up to 75 bucks to my purchase price.

[Darkeside]

The pound is at a depressing level against the dollar.

Just discussing a pick up and XE is quote $1.57 to the pound, I'm sure Paypal will translate a little worse again too.

[culturalmulatto]

currency rates for me (american) are turning up beautifully. except for jpn shopping as someone already mentioned. lets just hope this situation continues!

btw- could exchange rates, not a perceived slump in the economy, be the reason for what seems to be a general slowing of supermarket activity?

[freecat]

i reduced my purchase from us websites/persons by half :( ... i hope it's going to go back to how it was...

[yupsterism]

1 U.S. dollar = 3.55 Malaysian ringgits.

it used to be 1 usd = 3.20 about five months ago.

no more spending spree for me! and malaysians clothing stores are shitty in general and the imported high end stuff are taxed like crazy.

[Curious_George]

Because of the improvement of the dollar against the pound English shoes are looking really good again. I hadn't even browsed UK sites in the last year because of the terrible exchange rate, but I'm going to pick up some Trickers soon if everything stays good.

[jude_smith]

So does this mean most people are going back to their local boutiques and shopping more or just cutting back?

[adrian]

^^

Probably going to buy stuff from local stores instead of online now.

CAD isn't doing that well against USD and JPY And Paypal's exchange rate just makes it worse..

[corter]

i got a couple canadian money orders that i'm waiting to cash, as they're now worth about 80% what they were a few weeks ago when i got them. i feel like it's going to be a long wait, lol

[nifu]

Parity is not happening again any time soon. You should cash them when you get .83 or .84 in my opinion.

I second that. the US dollar works in ~7 year cycles and it's around year 0 right now.

[phelen]

Yeah no purchases from Japan and States for a while now, GBP is weak against the $ and the yen.

[swooc]

most of you guys have it good still. it has really affected us aussies big time. we have to buy shit at .65 rates tops now.

[jws]

goin to hk and jap for holidays in dec, coming from australia exchange is killing me