04 August 2008

Changing currency

Planning for our trip to France gave me a good lesson in changing currency. I went around a few travel agencies and the post office as well. I ultimately found that the best deal is that offered by Marks and Spencer
They don't charge any commission on foreign currency and only 1% on sterling travellers' cheques. I went to the M & S outlet at Arena park near my house and got €245 for £200.36 (@ rate of 1.2228).

A lot of people tend to change currency in banks but ore often than not, their rates are not the best. Doing some research, I learnt that the worst rates are those offered by those money changers operating from small kiosks.

I too did make some mistakes on the way and bought travellers cheques worth £500 from the post office a few days before that. They charged me £7 pounds as commission.

If you are interested in currency Forex trading, do check out my friend Ahrasis' blog: "Forex Profiteer".

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the information. When it comes to changing currency I always want to do it with less expenses. Marks and Spencer seems to be a respected and trusted company.

Anonymous said...

Know what? u can make profit from forex transactions.. yeah.. juz by buying and selling alone.. many of the companies in inida is making lotta profit..

SuperBlogger said...

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for the info its good to know, I used to do the credit card in the atm route but found out its not so easy now anymore with all the security issues.

Dilip Mutum said...

Thanks for all your comments guys.

Ahrasis: You are welcome.

Bookwormz said...

i alweez changed mine in the post office. never use travellers cheque before.

madaviagarwal said...

Thanks for sharing information

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