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SHJAM
01-16-2007, 07:30 PM
It has come the time when I must go to my peers AKA the Knowlege bank of the IIF and fill in some answers to a question that has me a bit stumped.

I am aware BOA as well as all banks have a buy/sell rate.

This on top of their fees is how they make money on foriegn exchange.

My last purchase of Dinars was 1/8/07 (the beginning of the shortage)

I gave my local institution $829.00 USD

The account manager gave me that days rate of .0009181 and quoted me 902,951 IQD.

When I got home and checked the rate by the CBI it was at 1320:1
so I did some calculating and by that 1320 I came up with 1,094,280 IQD.

It would seem to me that I received only 82.5% of the Dinars that I had expected as well as paying my banks and BOA's fees.

Thats 17.5% or 191,329 IQD

Thats alot of jingle.

Anybody?