No post for about half a year. Why? Simply, because nothing real shocking happened. For my Euro I got about $1.31 to 1.34 and ¥131 to ¥133. Only recently it seems the Euro has increased a slightly bit in rate. It's the second time I see both the $ above $1.35 and the ¥ above the ¥1.35.

Did it give me some benefits? Well, a long waited series of watches has come out and I bought two of this series. They were not cheap, so I hoped for a good Currency Rate.

Two Watches, ¥ 80000.
Currency Rate: €1.- = ¥128.1550
Price Paid: €624.25

Check out what this would have cost me a year ago, where the rate was around €1.- = ¥100. Let's hope I do not have to post much updates. This only means nice and stable currency rates.

Friday May 10, 2013

It has been  long time since I updated my How's da Dough weblog. It was simply because no big changes in currency rates happened. Funny thing today. Today you get more than ¥100 yen for $1. It becomes more interesting to buy stuff overseas. 

Recent purchases:

April 18, 2013. Three watches, ¥48000. Rate: €1 = ¥123,1560. Paid: €389,75

April 21, 2013, Two Tees, $60,82, Rate: €1 = $1,2655, Paid: €48,06
May 3, 2013, One wristwatch, $530,25, Rate: €1 = $1,2707, paid €417,28
May 3, 2013, Three watches, $318,15, Rate: €1 = $1,2707, Paid €250,37
May 10, 2013, Three Tees, ¥12400, rate: €1 = ¥124,7800, Paid €99,38

Tuesday January 29th 2013.

Well, I haven't posted for a while, as not much happened around New Year, but suddenly, last week the currency rates became pretty interesting for uying outside the Euro Zone for me. 

I have bought several small things lately.

Saturday: T-Shirt + shipping from Hong Kong, $34.-,
Rate Paypal: €1 = $1.30434
Paid: €26.20

Monday: Toy 1: $30.88
Rate Paypal: €1 = $1.30240
paid: €23,71

Monday: Toy 2: $27.49
Rate Paypal: €1 = $1.30222
Paid: €21.11

Today: Used watch: ¥8100
Rate Paypal:  €1 = ¥117.018
Paid: €69.22

Christmas 2012

I saw this currency rates last Thursday, but forgot to out it on my weblog. That are nice looking rates. I hope the currencies will devellop this way next year. 

Back to today's rate's. Not much spectacular, although the US$ dropped a bit, until just above $1.32 per €1.00

It's good the Euro went up a bit since a few months ago. I reserved two watches in Japan. All inclusive price was ¥45500. I added a little for the seller, so he can buy a beer on my cost next time he visits a bar. So I paid

Total price: ¥46000
Conversion Rate (Payal): €1.00 = ¥106.934
Charged from my bank account: €430.17.

Week 50, Weekend December 15 /16 2012

After a little peak in September the Euro dipped just under $1.29, but it seems now the Euro will stick above the $1.31. Also important to me, the Euro is also almost ¥110. I'm used to calculate myself rich by just subtracting two zeroes from the end (¥10000 = €100), but this year most of the time this wasn't the case, as Paypal does uses a less favorable rate. It's a pity, as I have bought some quite expensive G-Shock watches this year (Frogman, Bape). Let's hope the Euro will repack a bit of it's strength in 2013. 

I bought a two watches at one seller a few weeks ago (Nov 29).
Price was ¥22000,
conversion rate Paypal: €1.00 = ¥102.155,
taken from my bank account: €215.36.

Friday September 14, 2012

The Euro now is above the $1.30 barrier. Let's hope this trend continues.

Wednessday September 12, 2012

I had to pay a new purchase from Japan. Pretty pricey, but luckily the Euro is getting back a little. Still the Paypal rate is much lower.

Two watches were bought in Japan. They were not the cheapest, though it was a very good bargain.
Total price: ¥71000
Conversion rate: €1.00 = ¥95.8669
Paid: €740.61

September 7, 2012.

Yeah, The Euro is 100 yen again. Let's hope this slowly continues. 

September 6, 2012

Not much happened since the last update, but recently I see the Euro crawl slowly higher compared to the US$ and the ¥. Let's hope this is an ongoing trend, as the low Euro was quite nasty in my purchases from Japan and East Asia. It's the 30th Anniversary of G-Shock next year and new Anniversary models are going to be released in Japan. It's quite a difference from the time I got ¥13000 yen for €100, specially as we are talking about models costing ¥47000.

Wednesday July 11th

Not good, I'm afraid. The Euro has not been so low in a very long time. I hope it gets up again.