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Originally Posted by BV
You surprise me with this post Battus.
You and I were just talking on ICQ, we were talking about how pissed off you when the Nederlands quit using the guilder and went to using the Euro and kept the prices marked the same.
It used to cost 40 guilders for a whore in the RLD, overnight it went to 40 Euros.
The exchange rate between those two currencies at that time were about as different as what the USD and Euro are now.
I know it affected the local economy as well as my business. In fact it put me out of business.
You remember I used to export sometimes 5 containers a week of Salal into Rotterdam to my customer in Aalsmeer, Millions of dollars worth of Salal every year that I made a % of. When the Euro finally took over the Guilder things just went down hill from there. Changed the whole market. Poof.....
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Your post would make sense if it suddenly got more expensive for Americans. Like if Americans suddenly had to pay the same price in Euro's which isnt the case. Online memberships are getting cheaper every month for Europeans with the low dollar. By making it Euro's again they pay what they always had to pay. It doesnt get more expensive, just less cheap (way too cheap in many cases).
Youre looking at it from the wrong side man.