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corbindallas · « **on:** January 09, 2009, 12:23:55 PM »

Hello, can anyone let me know whether it is better exchanging GBP in England or Turkey. In the UK at the moment today's exchange rate between popular companies such as post office, M&S and a few internet FX companies is between 2.21 and 2.26. I was wondering if in Turkey I would get a better deal as the official interbank listed rate is currently 2.37 on the web? Will banks there for instance give a closer deal to the official rate?

kevin b · « **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2009, 13:32:37 PM »

You will get a better deal in a bank in Turkey.

wallace · « **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2009, 18:13:54 PM »

I got 2.35 with the TEB bank this afternnon

karaokemark · « **Reply #3 on:** January 20, 2009, 09:01:05 AM »

Anyone who is changing money be aware the rate has dropped fast today the rate from coinmill showing at the bottom of this page shows 2.47 the actual average live rate is 232.38 I use this site which is updated every minute and is always within 0.5 of a lira of what my bank offers. http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi
Mark

brianthegardener · « **Reply #4 on:** January 20, 2009, 16:23:36 PM »

I will have some of that Mark..232.38 tl to the £:D

karaokemark · « **Reply #5 on:** January 20, 2009, 17:11:30 PM »

it will cost you £100 im afraid

daveG · « **Reply #6 on:** January 20, 2009, 17:31:47 PM »

Thought those rates were too good to be true. $:-\$

tribalelder · « **Reply #7 on:** January 21, 2009, 08:25:01 AM »

If you look on coinmill.com which supplies the info to this site you will see it quotes 2.49 which it claims was supplied by Yahoo Finance today......look on Yahoo Finance and it quotes 2.28 Looks like coinmill is talking ***locks:(

JohnF · « **Reply #8 on:** January 21, 2009, 14:21:50 PM »

I queried this with Coinmill and this is their response:

quote:
I use the IMF rates for GBP. Generally the IMF is my most reliable data
source.

It appears that they just updated the rates for GBP this morning to be
current as of the 19th (but they are still two days behind). With that
update, coinmill is now showing 1 GBP = 2.40, closer to what yahoo is
showing. I have noticed that the IMF does not update on weekends.
Maybe they are taking a long weekend for the US holiday on Monday and
the inauguration on Tuesday?

If the IMF continues to be unreliable, I will replace them with another
source.

If the accuracy doesnt improve over the next few days I'll ask him to change the data feed.

JF

brianthegardener · « **Reply #9 on:** January 21, 2009, 18:22:57 PM »

the currant rate is 2.29tl to the pound as at 2020 today wednesday 21st jan...was 2.40 on tuesday 20th jan

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