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ultrakaiju
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 Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good I can only concur with what has already been said. My only consolation to the rest of you is that you can at least hold off on a few purchases from JYA/Mandarake, while this 'bad time' occurs. I sure picked a hell of a time to live here. Being a broke student is one thing, trying to convert what little money I can scrape together into Yen is depressing as hell.
Also, as an aside, to make matters worse us Canadians are still getting the shaft from all directions, as for some bizarre reason I can't fathom, Paypal still values the USD more, despite our loonie being above par for months now. This is really making any collecting hard if not impossible these days.
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Lixx
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Good news lads: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 46100.htmlI'll believe it when I see it! Then again I'm suppose to save for a European trip all this year so it won't effect me.
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MattyBoomBatty
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good You got caned! Not good at all. I went to buy something from Mandarake today and had it in my cart and left the room and when I came back it was gone....never seen that happen before...bought out from under me while I had it in my cart. Its still not back up either. The dollar is going whack-shit in Oz...somedays its up and others its down. toybotstudios wrote: this sucks. after describing how shitty it is to buy on Celga right now with the exchange rate, I won two auctions for 5,000 yen. fucking two hundred dollars later and waiting for the fucking $50 shipping invoice. someone remind me NOT to shop on YJA right now. 
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Winu
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good To read the rest of the WSJ article it unfortunately requires a paid subscription, but you could read a full article here: http://www.efxnews.com/story/9475/dollars-long-slide-vs-yen-may-finally-be-nearing-end"By 2025, he [Eishi Wakabayashi] predicts that the dollar will rise to Y180." 
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palepoli
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good I've lowered my standards to 100 yen to the dollar before I go back to visit. Needless to say I probably won't be going back anytime soon.
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pollard_hunter
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good So hope that trend prediction comes to fruition. It'll make wanting to visit again much easier. Thanks for sharing!
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psilo110
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Winu wrote: "By 2025, he [Eishi Wakabayashi] predicts that the dollar will rise to Y180." Yeah but isn't he the same guy who said in the future, the internet would be on computers? I am skeptical.
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gatchabert
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good If anyone's been watching...the Yen is climbing. Three weeks ago it was roughly 81.5 and now it is close to, if not, at 83!!! GO YEN GO!!!!
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Lixx
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good gatchabert wrote: If anyone's been watching...the Yen is climbing. Three weeks ago it was roughly 81.5 and now it is close to, if not, at 83!!! GO YEN GO!!!! Yeah but middlemen still only offer 76-78 yen per dollar. 
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gatchabert
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Lixx wrote: gatchabert wrote: If anyone's been watching...the Yen is climbing. Three weeks ago it was roughly 81.5 and now it is close to, if not, at 83!!! GO YEN GO!!!! Yeah but middlemen still only offer 76-78 yen per dollar. You're only thinking of right now...not later in the year or next year 
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petitetoilonrouge
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good  This is not good either.
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moodydoom
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good ^ yup, toy shopping from US stores is definitely on hold for me now.
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Anti Social Andy
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Buy direct . . . it's the only way to fly! 
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Lixx
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Anti Social Andy wrote: Buy direct . . . it's the only way to fly! Where was this strong dollar when I needed it the most in my insane buying sprees of 2 years ago? Of course now that I've bought like 15 toys in the last two years the yen plummets.
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ultrakaiju
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Meanwhile, the loonie is being crushed once again. Now at a six year low after the recent BoC announcement.  With general toy prices in Yen only going up, and the C$ only going down, buying anything is becoming such a massive undertaking now. US shoppers really don't know how good they have it....
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itsa_mia
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good you got that right, losing $30+ on every US $100 makes me sick thinking about it  
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petitetoilonrouge
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Re: 85 yen to the dollar is not good Not exactly like if our salary went up 30%...
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