Date:         Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:18:27 +0100
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
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From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: Colored lights (was: Re: any interest in clear/smoked/all red
              vanagon taillights?)
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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Hansen most certainly does. Euro is not THE currency... it is an ALTERNATIVE
currency. The German dealers I have dealt with prefer Dm.
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Hi,

I don't know when the last time was that you made a deal in the European
Community (of which Germany is a member) but they did have a "changeover
period" for the first few months of 2002 where one could pay using either
the new EURO currency, or the older Deutsch Marks.  Now, however, that is no
longer an option.  If you have old currencies, like DM or Austrian
Schillings, the only place that they will have any value, is at that
particular countries National Bank... and even there you may not get much
respect.

What you are probably seeing here, is somebody who contracted out to have
their website done, and does not want to pay anyone to upgrade the prices to
EURO... he probably will eventually.

People can still get the conversion rates for the old European currencies
(as they were fixed in late 2001) at sites like www.XE.com which has a great
currency converter... but even though you may be converting a price from DM
into either Dollars, or EURO... you will still have to pay in a currency
which exists!

I hope this clears things up a bit.

RSF

PS... Alsoo the EURO is not an EURO DOLLAR... just EURO.  and another side
note, because I find it to be really silly... they say that the currency of
EURO has no plural!!  For example you cannot say "give me 10 EUROS". You
would say "gimme 10 EURO"!!  Crazy!


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