Has been rising over the last few days despite article 50 now being issued,long may it continue. Seems as if we are not in the mire that has been predicted. 
The £ today.
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Minxy
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We got some the onther day at €1.156 to £1, checked just now and it's €1.1782 with Revolut by comparison Caxton are only offering 1.1515.
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Tough tittyI was hoping for another drop when the article 50 letter was dropped. I was hoping for another drop on the release of the EU's Draft negotiating document.
I was disappointed on both fronts
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It seems there are people in this country that would love to see us fall on our face,we are not called Great Britain for nothing.
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Just bought ours today at the PO at 1.13 tourist rate but it don't matter. We're off whatever the bloody rate is, hopefully the Halifax card bank rate will help with the pain.
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Sterling has slumped 17 per cent against the US dollar and 15 per cent against the euro since Britain voted to leave the European Union on June 23.Has been rising over the last few days despite article 50 now being issued,long may it continue. Seems as if we are not in the mire that has been predicted.
Looks Mirey to me
I don't want us to fall flat on our faces. The lower it goes the better for our exporters (me included). I am a full blown brexiteer
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December 2008 it was under 1.05€
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Your not allowed to remind people of that.
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Bought some homeward flights from Ryanair during the week and they offered their "perfect" exchange rate of 1.09. The thing about Ryanair is that you know that if they do anything like this it is for their benefit so a few clicks allowed me to pay by Clarity. Good to know how far the "perfect" exchange rate was from reality.
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And november 2015 it was €1.42!
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& July 2002 it was 1,61€
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Yes we boobed by getting the Caxton card. It will be getting emptied and dumped for Revolut next time.
We used our Halifax card in Benidorm last week and all cash out of the wall was converted , at 1.14
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To Europe !!!!!
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Or this one,
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Revolut and Caxton are cash cards, Halifax Clarity card is a credit card, 2 different things (we have them all, Caxton purely as a backup).
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If you really want to dump Caxton you can actually transfer the funds from it to Revolut, I've did it when I dumped FairFX ... however as you've already converted £ to € when you loaded your Caxton card and it has no €200 limit per calendar month regarding ATM withdrawal as the Revolut one has you might as well just spend it as you need to then transfer any balance to Revolut, ie what you cannot spend/withdraw from an ATM as it is too small an amount.
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You can't compare the exchange rate offered by any currency card to that offered by any credit card. The currency card will always win hands down due to the very simple fact that you may choose when to exchange the currency and obviously do so when the rate is advantageous.
The currency is then held on the card in Euros not Sterling.
A credit card is the opposite. The currency is exchanged when the transaction is processed, and that isn't on the day you make the purchase, it's anything up to a week later and you are stuck with whatever the Visa or MasterCard rate for the day is.
As an example I still have a few Euros on my Revolut card that I bought at 1.40+. I also have a Clarity card. The MasterCard day rate yesterday, so valid for the whole weekend, is 1.1649.
If I make a 100 Euro purchase using the Clarity card it would cost me £85.84. The same purchase using my Revolut card would cost me £71.42 assuming 1.40 as the rate I bought the Euros at.
Not rocket science to see the best rate is it?
As long as you keep an eye on the rate and exchange at the right time on a currency card then it doesn't matter what credit card you have it can never ever compete.
The currency is then held on the card in Euros not Sterling.
A credit card is the opposite. The currency is exchanged when the transaction is processed, and that isn't on the day you make the purchase, it's anything up to a week later and you are stuck with whatever the Visa or MasterCard rate for the day is.
As an example I still have a few Euros on my Revolut card that I bought at 1.40+. I also have a Clarity card. The MasterCard day rate yesterday, so valid for the whole weekend, is 1.1649.
If I make a 100 Euro purchase using the Clarity card it would cost me £85.84. The same purchase using my Revolut card would cost me £71.42 assuming 1.40 as the rate I bought the Euros at.
Not rocket science to see the best rate is it?
As long as you keep an eye on the rate and exchange at the right time on a currency card then it doesn't matter what credit card you have it can never ever compete.
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@NickNic, I understand what you are saying and that's why we've been using up our € on the Revolut card which we loaded last year at over €1.30 - when buying fuel etc on our last holiday we always paid in cash and bought stuff with cash where we could rather than use the credit card which had a very low exchange rate at the time.
We've still got about €100 euros on our Revolut cards at the €1.30+ rate but soon will have to use the £ we've just exchanged at €1.15 ... fortunately not too much so with it going up a little bit in the last couple of days we'll top it up at the higher rate ... still not ideal but a lot better than the abysmal rates we've seen in the past.
We've still got about €100 euros on our Revolut cards at the €1.30+ rate but soon will have to use the £ we've just exchanged at €1.15 ... fortunately not too much so with it going up a little bit in the last couple of days we'll top it up at the higher rate ... still not ideal but a lot better than the abysmal rates we've seen in the past.
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I got an email from Revolut about a 'Premium' version with a monthly cash withdrawal allowance of €400 but I have yet to discover how to apply for this or if there is a cost, anybody know how to apply for this or what it costs?
If I try through my existing Revolut app it keeps simply telling me that I already have it!
If I try through my existing Revolut app it keeps simply telling me that I already have it!
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It's £6.99 per month and you can apply in the app if you want it.
Personally I don't use it enough to make that worthwhile but I can understand how some people would.
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Thanks for that.
I have only just started using the Revolut app and the basic works for me, I don't even need the card but I will probably get one as a backup.
I have a Portuguese bank a/c with a debit card so I use Revolut to convert and then transfer the euros, I was a little worried when I read that there was a limit of £5000 on free transfers but since I read the terms properly this is per month and not pa, lots more than enough for my frugal needs
No it's still in sterling. We have just been using it and letting it transfer whatever the rate has been but good info what we don't spend I can transfer to revel it when I open an account
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If only it were that simple, but it's not. No one knows which way the exchange rate is going. Those who think they do are called gamblers and work for big banks. Suppose you bought at 1.40 (I did too) and when you came to spend it was 1.50? Not so smart then. Once you've used all your euros you have to buy again so I look forward to your advice as to when the most advantageous time is. 1.15? Suppose it goes to 1.20 in 6 months, will you compensate for my losses, or do you know for sure which way it's going?
Moneysavingexpert.com explains it all in simple language.
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