Currency Exchange with Excellent Personal Service

Advantages: Excellent Exchange Rates
Disadvantages: None

...General background of currency exchange rates- You can search the net high and low, weeks even months before your holiday, just in case the exchange rate changes and gives you a higher rate of exchange. Then you find one....Fantastic..you think you have a good rate , then they add fees, commission and delivery.. then shows not to be such a good rate at all. Most agents don't charge commission now like they used to do, but they have to make some profit and that will be in their fees or a higher delivery charge. Some will offer to buy back at the same rate you bought for, but if anyone is like me, I don't have much to bring home anyway. You can save some cash by collecting from your local agent, but their rates are not normally so good. US Dollars $ We normally buy US dollars, and the exchange rate has increased over...

MALDIVEDIVER 05.02.2007 (16.10.2007) · Read review
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Review of Thomasexchange.co.uk

maximum return on re-exchange

Advantages: maximise your cash
Disadvantages: minimise hassle

...Some ideas for the best deal on re-exchange: 1) avoid it - don't change too much into the foreign currency in the first place. 2) Free re-exchange from Thomas Cook and others - helps, but you still have the turn to pay. 3) Hold as cash and change into another foreign currency when next abroad. Avoids the double loss of changing into sterling, and into another currency. 4) Use automatic coin exchange machines at Gatwick and Heathrow to get rid of foreign coin 5) Britain makes hard work of exchanging coin, small denomination notes and weird and wonderful currencies. Overseas bureaux de change often better...

Aquila 19.09.2000 · Read review
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Accident Exchange

Advantages: Good replacement car, Speedy service
Disadvantages: Bit cloak and dagger - dont really explain how they get your details

...Around about 6 months ago I had a car accident with a van driver and it was not my fault. My Focus had quite extensive damage to the offside of my vehicle and it was undrivable. Accident Exchange rang me about 3 hours after the accident and took some details down - I didn't really expect anything of it and didn't really know who the company were. The next morning I had somebody turn up with a brand new focus for me and I was told that I wouldn't have to pay a penny. Result! Accident Exchange went about establishing liability for me as my insurance company were truly useless. The other guy disputed liability in the incident which made me very angry but Accident Exchange persisted for me and I was found not to be at fault by the other drivers insurance. The whole thing took about 3 weeks but I had a courtesy car from Accident...

shanediablo 31.03.2008 · Read review
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The Corn Exchange

Advantages: Wicked place to go even just to look around
Disadvantages: Stairs are a bit rickety and the balcony is really scary!!

...There isn't already a place for this opinion to be posted, so I know that this is the first, I guess it had better be good so the next person who writes about it has something to live up to! The Corn Exchange - as the name suggests, was once a place where the farmers of Leeds gathered and sold off their corn! There is in fact still a huge scale on one side of the building that was used for its original purpose! It changed quite a long time ago but remains with the original architecture (dunno if i spelt that right!!) and amazing ceilings! I'll stop rambling now and actually tell you about it! It houses quite a few shops that are either original or that there are very few of in England. It also has quite a lot of little stalls that congregate there on particular days and a few eating places and a bar. The Shops: - Mambo...

Celia86 22.10.2001 · Read review
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Fair Exchange

Advantages: Easy Read
Disadvantages: Not deep enough

...Fair Exchange- Michele Roberts, 246pp, 6.99 Roberts is half English and half French, which explains her setting for this tale of secrecy and guilt. The action takes place partly in the small French village of Saintange-sur-Seine, partly in London and partly in the Lake District. Set at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, it is a story of interwoven lives, love affairs, drunken japes, babies and Revolution. The book is a confession- the account of Louise, a French peasant who, fearing that her end is fast approaching, has a guilty need to repent for a dark deed she committed as a young woman. She calls for the local priest and thus begins the tale. At the end of the 19th century France was in turmoil- the aristocracy were being sent to the guillotine and riots reigned. The Gallic Revolution was observed...

Tricksty 29.01.2005 · Read review
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Review of Fair Exchange - Michele Roberts

Currency Convertion Made Easy!

Advantages: Simple interface, most info you need on home page
Disadvantages: Perhaps not best if looking for a more sophisticated tool

...I have minimal need for a currency conversion site so when I do use them for either business or pleasure I want something that is simple and easy to use. I have used in the past a variety of sites and found that many are complex or you need to get through a number of screens before you get the answer you want. This is not the case with xe.com, which has now become the sole site I use for this. First off, the name is great and very easy to remember. This might not be a huge deal for many but if you use a variety of computers (home, work, girlfriends house, parents, etc...) you need one you can easily remember. This does the trick nicely. Once in, it is also incredibly simple to use and updates live. I think every minute or two it will update so you have the most accurate conversion possible. As you enter the site the home page is...

Nixu1980 18.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of xe.com (XE Currency Converter)

Your Foreign Exchange on NET

Advantages: --
Disadvantages: ---

...?s most popular currency tool, allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates. It?s very simple to use. Enter the amount: 1000 Type of Currency: Indian Rupees (It is a drop down and you can select the currency) Convert to this Currency: US Dollar Bingo and you have the result. Live mid-market rates as of 2002.08.26 10:29:28 GMT. 1,000.00 INR = 20.6146 USD India Rupees United States Dollars 1 INR = 0.0206146 USD 1 USD = 48.5093 INR You can also get the data on your email and its free of cost.How this world as come to everything on the Internet, now no need to check your daily newspaper. Loading: Fast Content: Too the point So when you are travelling to other country and need to check the currency rate now you no...

asyis 26.08.2002 · Read review
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Foreign Currency Exchange (sterling to Euros)

Advantages: Can't think of any
Disadvantages: Lose out on rate and could end up with no money as not widely accepted

...I am very well travelled and have a vast knowledge of foreign exchange (this review is aimed more for the euro). There is no better way to obtain your holiday money than to take the sterling and change it at your destination. No matter what you are told, no commission etc you will not get as much for your money anywhere in the UK as you will get when you reach your destination. If you are travelling to Spain, the Canary Islands or any other Spanish Island, you will get a higher rate at a local exchange than you will ever get here in the UK or at the airports. Even if you go to the post office and get your commission free euros, you will receive a much lower rate than you will in your local resort. Also, don't get collared for euro cheques either. Firstly, there is a charge to exchange them in Spain and you lose out if you bring any...

jeckmate 05.08.2008 · Read review
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The Royal Exchange, culture old and new

Advantages: Beautiful architecture and excellent performances
Disadvantages: None

...The Royal Exchange, located in St Ann’s Square, Manchester, is the home to the Royal Exchange Theatre Company which was formed in 1968 by a group of successful theatre practitioners who were determined to give Manchester a theatre producing work of national standards. In 1976, the Company managed to secure a 25 year lease on the Great Hall in Manchester's Victorian Cotton Exchange, whereon Amber Hisott’s striking decorate glass design was added to the ceiling panels and deep blue stained glass was fitted to the halls’ already magnificent domes which showers stunning shafts of blue light thought the Great Hal and turned the Victorian Cotton Exchange into the Royal Exchange Company’s award-winning glass and steel theatre-in-the-round. The centre of the Exchange hall is build as a "module", with 360 degree...

Shekera 14.10.2001 (19.11.2001) · Read review
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Its no accident people use accident exchange

Advantages: Supply quality courtesy cars to people on third party insurance, great customer service
Disadvantages: may not be as helpful where liability is an issue

...We had an accident last year where another driver pulled out the wrong way at a one way street and wrote our car off he admitted liability at the scene. I was only insured third party only so when my insurance company asked if I would like a courtesy car i jumped at the chance! They put me thorough to accident exchange who took a few details etc. I must admit I was skeptical: A gentleman arrived at my address the next morning with a 1 year old vauxhall vectra parked outside which had just been valeted and serviced. I had to fill out minimal paper work, I was told no matter what happened I was covered and I didnt have to give the car back until two weeks after the payment for my car was recieved. We ended up keeping the car for nearly four months with minimal contact from them. One morning I went to the car to find someone had dented...

tokyodrift1982 14.04.2009 · Read review
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