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Old 2008.10.25, 02:06 PM   #65
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You might be okay. As expensive as the dollar is right now, the yen is even worse. Today it takes 94 yen to make a dollar. In the middle of last year it used to take 120 yen to make a dollar (meaning the dollar could buy you a lot more Japanese goods than it can right now). I'm watching and cringing because all my Japanese purchases are in yen, and payment won't clear my debit card until the day or the week of shipment on the things I've pre-ordered.

I remember "losing" $50 on one particular shipment in Q3 2007, from how much the yen had gained or the dollar had lost (depending upon how you look at it) past the time I had initiated the pre-order. I think it's going to be much worse for me this time.
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