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Best way to transfer Marina fees from UK£ to Euro?
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rivonia
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Exchange rate this morning....23 April........source http://www.xe.com
1 GB Pound = €1.40128…… UP :banana
1 US Dollar = €0.931353…… DOWN :rain
1 Ruble = €0.0178042…… UP :sunny
1 GB Pound = €1.40128…… UP :banana
1 US Dollar = €0.931353…… DOWN :rain
1 Ruble = €0.0178042…… UP :sunny
rivonia
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And rising by the minute...Yipee
Thedreamoneday
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I've watched xe.com like a hawk this year, just as I was about to buy I checked Moneycorp against xe, Moneycorp gave a slightly better rate whilst xe wouldn't budge at all.
Incidentally depending on how much you buy (10's of 1000's in my case) the rate you actually get is about 0.01 lower, so based on the figures above you'd walk away with about 1.391, which is still very good especially as it was circa 1.30 at the start of the year! ��
Donheist
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I set up an offshore account with HSBC Malta. If you can get premier status it is entirely free. Euro debit card is handy. I transfer via XE.com all works easily. Before I did that, I used to go to a forex place in London and take 6000 Euros out on a debit card, and paid the marina bill in cash. Some places have limits on that sort of thing. And 10000 is close to the currency limits. And obviously a bit of a twentieth century solution...
Sandy Bottom
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Guys this is a copy of a new thread that I have started in the Livaboard forum - there may be a link, maybe not, but I'm just alerting people.
Cheers.
Just alerting you guys to a POSSIBLE Scam which MAY have come via this forum. I really don't many details yet, but I'm on the case. In short;
1. A week ago I asked for some advice in here on a thread about the "Best way to transfer marina fees from UK£ to Euros" - I got some great and much appreciated advice here
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?428334-Best-way-to-transfer-Marina-fees-from-UK%A3-to-Euro
2. This morning however I received an email linking my user on here name 'drumbeat' to a 'Congratulations you have already earned **** commission on exchange rates over the last seven days (i.e. within the length of time since I started the thread).
3. The guy calls himself Dan Gilbert of a Forex company in Cyprus and the sum involved is a four figure sum.
I am going to copy this thread across to the original one so that people are alerted but any information would be gratefully received - if it is just somebody making a bit of commission on an introduction then that doesn't bother me in the slightest - I'm more concerned as to whether or not somebody is trying to access our bank a/c or transfers abroad. Pm me please with any info you might have. If it's just a bit of introduction commission that we are talking about then I will be relieved not annoyed.
Regards,
Steve
Cheers.
Just alerting you guys to a POSSIBLE Scam which MAY have come via this forum. I really don't many details yet, but I'm on the case. In short;
1. A week ago I asked for some advice in here on a thread about the "Best way to transfer marina fees from UK£ to Euros" - I got some great and much appreciated advice here
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?428334-Best-way-to-transfer-Marina-fees-from-UK%A3-to-Euro
2. This morning however I received an email linking my user on here name 'drumbeat' to a 'Congratulations you have already earned **** commission on exchange rates over the last seven days (i.e. within the length of time since I started the thread).
3. The guy calls himself Dan Gilbert of a Forex company in Cyprus and the sum involved is a four figure sum.
I am going to copy this thread across to the original one so that people are alerted but any information would be gratefully received - if it is just somebody making a bit of commission on an introduction then that doesn't bother me in the slightest - I'm more concerned as to whether or not somebody is trying to access our bank a/c or transfers abroad. Pm me please with any info you might have. If it's just a bit of introduction commission that we are talking about then I will be relieved not annoyed.
Regards,
Steve