Currency Exchange

[WilmaM]

the Post Office do 'buy back' foreign currency Dennis.

Another thing to be careful of - the UK use the Chip & PIN security system on Credit/Debit card transactions, whereby you don't sign for them but enter your PIN number into a machine - my sister had to be careful where she used her card.

[Dennis]

Hi:)

The following was in reply to a question I had sent to the U.K. Post Office: 'Please note that we are only to fulfil foreign currency order requests for customers, who hold a UK sourced credit/debit card and live in the UK. All of our orders can only be send to a UK billing address'.


Cheap dennis:)

Update on using my mastercard; bank says I would save about $1 on each $250 transaction

[Tracey]

Not forgetting that Great British institution Marks & Spencer.
They, i have found in recent years, have been better than any high street bank for changing / exchanging money and there are just as many of them dotted about the high street.
I'm probably on the wrong wave length but thought it worth noteing
http://money.marksandspencer.com/travel ... /overview/

[Dennis]

Hi Tracey,

Marks & Spencer does the same as the Post Office; only sells foreign currency to residents of the U.K.

http://money.marksandspencer.com/travel ... formation/


Thanks for the suggestion tho:) dennis

[Tracey]

I'm probably on the wrong wave length but thought it worth noteing
http://money.marksandspencer.com/travel ... /overview/

Told you !

I posted as i saw on there regarding changing money back. For us inthe U.K its free and they give the impression it is for tourists also.

Tourists visiting the UK
Our buy back service is also available to visitors to the UK. Simply visit an M&S Bureau de Change and exchange your home currency for pounds sterling.

I was never good with money !

[Dennis]

Wow! This explains it to me: http://www.buycurrency.co.uk/ Since I'm not a UK Resident, Only have my expired passport, then I can't order GBP over the net. Funny how the amount of $ they give a UK resident in exchange for their GBP is about what I would get for selling to my bank whatever GBP I have left from a visit to UK:)

Ah, the old days when you could have about 7 coins and the largest amount be a shilling:) dennis