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I know chances are very slim, but just in case anyone had a chunk of $$ they wanted getting rid of, that'd be great.

could be wrong but thought Julian tweeted he had a load this morning - perhaps check, this morning was 7 hours ago after all, solid chance im wrong!

Think I saw Brookie had some too.

sent you a skype message, still have a few lying about.

Not got loads but i got some not 100% how many but could be around 2k

brookie fkn heatering, it span from 500-2k in few days, getting the lot.

Message Vamplew i guess?

you'll be paying vig.

This sucks so much, just copped the lot and will eventually need to change it back to sterling, why on earth would he charge vig?

he will be charging me 2% if nobody else binks in the next week, come on boys!

Win $342,000 and wants an extra 2% to do something he needs to do anyway.

Makes me feel almost physically sick.

You can do better than 2% on the High Street

where simon?

dont buy it off the little nerd

Fairfx.com are doing $1520 for £1005.22

That's $1567.93 going by xe so 3%

Pretty sure you'll struggle to beat that.

Wow DV has really gone down in my estimation if that is true.

http://www.thomasexchangeglobal.co.uk/

£1/$1.5325

THIS^^

as an aside -- $ is weakening a lot at the moment, it has moved from $1.52 to $1.56 pretty quickly, obv no idea if that run is going to continue.

Currently xe.com is showing $1.56

I don't usually deal with "2% vig" I deal with "number of pips from spot" but just to make sure we are saying the same thing here:

Are you saying he is going to give you 0.98 x $1.56 = $1.5288 on the £ ?

http://www.change-link.com/ are already much better than that, and some others may well be updating their rates favourably 2mrw when they open.  On top of this, they will usually give you a better quote for decent size if you squeeze.

Assuming the best rate you can get from the High Street exactly matches Vamplew's offer.  Normally I'm all for swapping between each other and cutting the high street out.  But here, it feels like he is bending you over prison styleee ... after getting a decent cop and presumably needing to change back to £, this defo should be done @ xe.com rates and if it were me, I'd actually prefer to give my money to an fx company to match it out of principle.

i dont know him at all and havent had previous dealings with him. Can understand it tbh, just prefer someone im close with to win in next few days,

Anyone who is completely disorganised, as I have told Trigg has had a right result with the ecomnic news today and the rally to $1.5604 spot....I'm the clown who bought on 30th May thinking I was being shrewd getting 2c over High st rate using a Forex and is now considerably worse off lolololol

Those of you interested in moving rates download the free UK Forex app....it's great at tilting you when live rates move

Yeah can't fault him for charging people for a service.

The way for people to show their disapproval is to never change with him ever again then he'll be stuck with having to pay whatever rate he can get.

Should end up with a 4% swing for him just for being greedy.

Irrelevant.

Unless he actively dislikes you charging vig after he's won all that is the tightest thing I have heard in ages.

Only good thing about it is: I've got a new player to funk against :)

tbf to him, he might be happy to keep the money in US$, in which case he'd be pretty justified in charging a VIG, because if he sells it all now @ spot, next year he'll have to pay some money to buy $'s.

in which case... better rtaes available, so let him keep the $

Woohoo, an upside to getting robbed £900 and losing my bank card for a week.

Discount on your mark up then pmsl.....obv joking :)

Doubt an British person would want to keep $330k in dollars.

$50kish for tournament entries in the future maybe.

The whole lot? Nah. Can't see it.

LOOOOOL nh greeky

nhnh

wtf surely not.

what happened to uk players sticking together?

What happened to 1.2?

what happened to shoe bombs?

what happened to epic rails?

what happened to fuck the yanks and the canadians?

what happened to God save the Queen.


I cant believe hed charge.

Was pretty shocked to see them beat thomas exchange by so much!

Then I called them. All I can say is lol, they're a shambles and they don't want my business!

Only 8 to go!

Through the wall, just preparing the jog up Whitehall now!

What comes first? 100 billionth hand on PokerStars or Staking thread? :)

I was going to ring, but still would like to know what to expect.

What was the coup?

Things are a bit different this year. Epic rails and shoe-bombs are still on the cards, just need the right people to final first, Bram/grafton/JP/Pez/Jake/Middy/Trigg/Allen boys or someone final an event and you'll see carnage on a scale with last year I'm sure ! Thing is I think british community still licking wounds from last year so a lot of people playing a lot less events.

We'll get another bracelet, I can feel it.

As for the vig everyone has the right to do whatever they want with their own money, it's just good to know who works on a favour for favour system and who doesn't. for future ref.

FYP

Girl who answered the phone didn't know her arse from her elbow. Told me 'manager would like to speak to you', manager kept me waiting. Manager asked me why I wanted to convert £20k into $, I said 'poker', he said they couldn't do that much for poker. I asked how much, he said '£4 or £5k'. I asked for an exact amount, he said 'well actually if you're gambling with the money we couldn't even do you £100'.

Their rates are still good enough (and they're close enough to a branch of Thomas Exchange) that I'll probably go in and try do as much as I can in person, but I'm not sure what reason I'll give them that won't require any documentation.

Doing a 3 month tour of the US?

I've never changed large amounts into $. Is the cautiousness due to money laundering concerns? Is Foreign Exchange regulated and they need to show they're complying with anti-laundering rules ?

FS Marc was about to say EXACTLY this (well only nh as don't want to wear out my keyboard too quickly).

They don't want your dirty cartel money.

yes

Liking to swap 1k in vegas for 1k on stars.

No vig, you send on stars before you come and you get in Vegas.

Pm

probably still have a chunk if people need.

nm all gones

Will me and my brother  will be bringing around 3k back to England if any one interested

i would be if you are local to sheffield

trigg, you want around 1k at spot?

I currently have 18k approx which won't be less than 15k before I return home later this week. I can do Vegas till Wednesday morning. Manchester/ Nottingham and maybe places between when I get home.

At spot ldo.

I suppose Alex gets first refusal of this, seeing as its his thread, but ill take whatever he doesnt. TY.

Ok let's see what Alex says, you have 2nd refusal after Alex.

sigh at missing it, 3rd refusal plz

Ben Dobson has sorted me ty everyone

does he have spare?

I don't think so no.

Had a win recently? ;)

i am buddy am in the pontefract area if your interested

mine mine mine. PM me when you get back and we can arrange to sort. Thanks.

sold my to trigg

thaks david, very smooth deal

escaping vegas with $$$$. Solid work fella, hope you enjoyed it

that fine buddy hope u have a good time in vegas and win big

Yep will pm you when I get back to the uk.

Hi i need over 20-30k to collect in Vegas on around the 19th.

I would ship on stars/tilt prior to flying.

Please help.