The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

[Paulos G]

Can you at least find your remote now that you've had your eyes seen to?

[Kieran76]

Aye, that turned up under a chair a few hours after me posting about losing it.

[Bort]

Rant time.

****ing Euro's! You'd think it would be easy to get just 13 small euro's but oh ****ing no.

Post office, we only do twenties.
Bureau de change, we don't do coins.

If you offer a currency exchange program. Have a bloody decent one.

Not only do you have to put up with crappy systems but you get grilled on why you would want 13 bloomin' euro's.

And to no one's surprise, Blackpool's arcades are a Bit ****. Can still taste them. Only House of the Dead 3 and Point Blank with a dodgy screen had me pumping extra credits in.

I still can't find the Gamestation in blackpool. They hid that one well.

[Paulos G]

Ummm. Out of interest why do you want just 13 euros?

[ChrisF]

Are you buying a magical flute from the Mighty Boosh?

[Bort]

Ummm. Out of interest why do you want just 13 euros?

/me sharpens his knife.

Ebay guy in belgium. IBAN account so it would cost 20? to go through Barclays, think it was 17? to go through western union and of course, he doesn't do paypal.

SMG trade/game show tat will be the death of me.

[Nijo]

How soon do you need it?
There are cheaper ways of transferring currency but it might take a while to setup.

Or if you're likely to visit Europeland any time soon just get 100 out and keep some.

I dunno, complicated business.

[Bort]

I just got 15 euro's at the bureau but I'd be interested in finding out a way to deal with IBAN accounts if you knew of a way without being bled dry. Can't be bothered messing around with this one any more. Just going to ask the guy to wrap up some coins if they wouldn't increase the postage.

[Nijo]

I use this: http://www.xe.com/fx/
Or there are the Citibank EUR current accounts. Haven't looked into them properly yet but I'm thinking about setting one up.

[Bort]

Cheers Nijo, will have a look into those.

[Nijo]

Nothing's really good for getting a handful of coins though. I'd say it's only worth it if you regularly buy SMG trade/game show tat.

[Bort]

Would only be used on the rare occasion when the seller doesn't use paypal, looked at the euro account and that's out of the window. 20 euro charge per month unless you have over 2k in the account. I'm not a window cleaner you know! (how the hell do they get away with that racket?)

On a lighter note, found a US cintiq reseller that would mark down. 500£ cintiq baby! Still too bloody much.

[Nijo]

Now you know why the UK should have adopted the euro....

pita

[Paulos G]

Now you know why the UK should have adopted the euro....

Word!

[VR46]

Politics in the Banter Topic, it'll never work

I've had to de-ice my pesky car three times today. Where's global warming when you need it ?