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Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 7:16:14 PM   
MikeBrough


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Back on my hobby-horse. How often do Digital River update the exchange rates they use in the store? I'm looking at CoG:EE but looks like the exchange rate for the digital download is £1 = $1.38 (£36 vs $50) while the current real life exchange rate is around 1.65 - has been since May. By my reckoning, it should only cost £31. May not sound like a lot but times is 'ard.

So, any steer on timescales?

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 7:33:21 PM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 7:36:24 PM   
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That's us, not DR - we generally update prices quarterly, we are a bit overdue as we've been too busy to go through and do that, but we'll catch up at some point in August.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 8:39:35 PM   
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Sorry to butt in here Mike, but I have often wondered what your avatar is. I cannot make heads or tails of it.

mo reb 


I'm a Dundee United fan, They're a football club in the Scottish Premier League (real football, played with the feet ). One winter in the 60s (when I was but a nipper), their pitch was snowbound and they called in a tar-burner to melt it. Unfortunately, it took the grass with it and the only way to make it playable was to lay down desert-loads of sand. Legend has it that United took to the sand 'like Arabs'.

My avatar is from a UK newspaper comic strip (Beau Peep, I think). The colours are appropriate - the team's strip colours.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 8:40:43 PM   
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Mike,

That's us, not DR - we generally update prices quarterly, we are a bit overdue as we've been too busy to go through and do that, but we'll catch up at some point in August.


Puts credit card back in wallet - for now.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 9:39:30 PM   
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Mike,

That's us, not DR - we generally update prices quarterly, we are a bit overdue as we've been too busy to go through and do that, but we'll catch up at some point in August.


Puts credit card back in wallet - for now.

Like a true Scot!

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 9:42:32 PM   
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(real football, played with the feet )


Agreed.


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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 11:06:45 PM   
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(real football, played with the feet )

Agreed.


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Please observe! The above clip is a JOKE. Do not take it seriously. My personal favourite is about one minute into the clip..... The clue is in the word.....

Sorry for the slight hijack of the thread, but the original question has been answered I hope :-)


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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 11:28:12 PM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/18/2009 11:44:14 PM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 12:07:03 AM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 12:26:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		There was a comedian years ago who called American football a "game of talk"... you play for a few seconds, then the team gathers around and talks about it, while the announcers then talk about it and give the coaches time to talk about it on the sidelines, etc, etc. Then you play for a few seconds, then everyone talks about it. Intermingled with copious amounts of advertisers talking.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 3:37:46 AM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 4:15:28 AM   
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But, they all played soccer for sure. Just like all the rest of the communists in the world..... 

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 4:33:06 AM   
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Soccer is communist, plain and simple. Do you think Karl Marx played wide reciever in college ? Hell no. Did Joseph Stalin ever do a lateral end around ? I think not. Did Chairman Mao throw a screen pass to his running back....no.

But, they all played soccer for sure. Just like all the rest of the communists in the world..... 


Actually , if you think about it ,Soccer(football)is a very capitalistic sport while ALL major pro sports in The good ole USA are run on a socialist model. Think about it. It's very hilarious

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 4:47:30 AM   
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Soccer is communist, plain and simple. Do you think Karl Marx played wide reciever in college ? Hell no. Did Joseph Stalin ever do a lateral end around ? I think not. Did Chairman Mao throw a screen pass to his running back....no.

But, they all played soccer for sure. Just like all the rest of the communists in the world..... 


Are you Doggie in disguise?

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 10:56:19 AM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 11:36:51 AM   
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Actually, I love American Football...however, ALL your sports seem to be very, very commercial heavy. I watched a Nascar race once and it was over 4 hours long! I had to split it over 3 nights!



Couldn't agree more about the number of commercials. Gotta pay for them spoiled $15 Million a year athletes somehow (more commercials/higher paid athletes- rinse/repeat)

As far as Nascar in concerned though Mr.Dredd, that's the length that some of them are. As the commercials run, so do the cars. No stoppage of play there. Yet longer races, more commercials- rinse/repeat etc.

It really is a vicious circle where ultimately the fan/consumer pays the price. Such are the ways of Capitalism.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 12:53:04 PM   
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Actually, I love American Football...however, ALL your sports seem to be very, very commercial heavy. I watched a Nascar race once and it was over 4 hours long! I had to split it over 3 nights!

Yeah JD, I agree about the commercials in Sky's or the old NASN's coverage of American sports. I love Five's coverage of the NFL and the NBA (and the NHL and MLB for that matter) where they MIGHT have one commercial during the 3-4 hour programme and that'll be during halftime. What Five does, when the Americans go over to a commercial is that they go straight back to the studio where the great Mike Carlson and our Nat talk in great depth about the last play, NFL news etc. I've learned a lot about American football from this channel's coverage. The NBA coverage does exactly the same too - straight to the studio for in depth discussion. Beats commercials anyday!

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 12:53:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes - in the case of Nascar, the race doesn't actually stop to go to ads - you just miss some racing. I merely mentioned it in regard to the number of commercial breaks - and in a 4/5 hour race, they can PACK EM IN! Pretty much the same with American Football - that is the length of the game - they just pack in commercials whilst there's a timeout turnover on downs or some such. I don't suppose there's anything wrong with it - they're just maximising their revenue in the quiter periods (although in Nascar you can miss some "excitement").

With American Football - it's the nature of the game - stop start is what happens and how the game "flows".

Agreed teddy - 5 has/had? good coverage of US sports (baseball is another one )

But I love your American sports

Sorry for going off topic. I'll leave  

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 7:40:49 PM   
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Actually, I love American Football...however, ALL your sports seem to be very, very commercial heavy. I watched a Nascar race once and it was over 4 hours long! I had to split it over 3 nights!



Couldn't agree more about the number of commercials. Gotta pay for them spoiled $15 Million a year athletes somehow (more commercials/higher paid athletes- rinse/repeat)

As far as Nascar in concerned though Mr.Dredd, that's the length that some of them are. As the commercials run, so do the cars. No stoppage of play there. Yet longer races, more commercials- rinse/repeat etc.

It really is a vicious circle where ultimately the fan/consumer pays the price. Such are the ways of Capitalism.

mo reb


Totally agree, they are so over the top with adds and hype. But the fans still pay/watch.

Me, I gave up on all that stuff when I was about 12 years old. About the same time I picked up Panzer Leader over at Toys-R-Us.

I love playing all of them, basketball was my favorite until unjuries began to keep me off the courts.


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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 7:41:46 PM   
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Soccer is communist, plain and simple. Do you think Karl Marx played wide reciever in college ? Hell no. Did Joseph Stalin ever do a lateral end around ? I think not. Did Chairman Mao throw a screen pass to his running back....no.

But, they all played soccer for sure. Just like all the rest of the communists in the world..... 


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Oh no......I guess I need to take a break or something.....

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 9:23:59 PM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 9:25:11 PM   
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Actually, I love American Football...however, ALL your sports seem to be very, very commercial heavy. I watched a Nascar race once and it was over 4 hours long! I had to split it over 3 nights!


Ugh...isn't that the truth. Football has TV timeouts where they pause the game so the networks can show some ads. Baseball has digitally added 'rolling billboards' behind home plate that you see with every at bat. It's just ridiculous.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/19/2009 9:25:31 PM   
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However, I never really understood how baseball works or why some folks get so enthusiastic about it.

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/29/2009 9:30:49 AM   
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Mike,

That's us, not DR - we generally update prices quarterly, we are a bit overdue as we've been too busy to go through and do that, but we'll catch up at some point in August.


It's payday. It's nearly the end of August...

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RE: Exchange rates - 8/29/2009 12:15:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Again all you North Americans, Poms and Europeans have got it wrong! The only real game of footy (football) is Aussie rules, its the only game u can run (with), bounce, mark (catch) and kick. It doesn't have to go go over or under the bar just through the sticks (posts)and if you miss the middle pair there are still posts either side of the goals to give additional chance to score. how fair is that? And most importantly when you run with the ball and the player with the ball is caught by an opposing player, the whole stadium yells balllll now that football!

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RE: Exchange rates - 9/1/2009 6:05:19 PM   
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Mike,

That's us, not DR - we generally update prices quarterly, we are a bit overdue as we've been too busy to go through and do that, but we'll catch up at some point in August.


It's payday. It's nearly the end of August...


bump

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RE: Exchange rates - 9/1/2009 7:45:16 PM   
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RE: Exchange rates - 9/1/2009 11:49:43 PM   
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