The perils of cross border shopping and currency conversion

Sep 25, 2011 15:26

As I've mentioned before, I have been getting games shipped to Seattle. I plan to pick them up and stay for 48 hours so that I can bring them back across the border tax + duty free. I've been very careful to stay under the $400 (CAD) limit that I'm allowed to bring back. However, $400 Canadian has recently changed from being worth ~$405 USD, to ~$388 USD. This change has put me slightly over the exemption limit. I hope that the currency conversion rate will be back in my favour when I go to pick stuff up. Or, at the very least, not any worse, since I'd guess they would probably wave me through with $405 instead of $400.

video games - purchase, video games - general

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