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Waxing Crescent 11.8%
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17-10-2010, 07:44 AM
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Quietly watching
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Yarra Junction
Posts: 3,044
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The treasury ...... What can they do.
If the reserve puts up interest rates, dollar goes up too.
Speculation is driving the market, once it breaks parity it might move up considerably, america financially is in a mess, since the gfc Greece has collapsed, Spain, Ireland, all in trouble, snowball effect as it continues to roll it gets bigger, hooray for a mining boom, we have not felt it like other countries.
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17-10-2010, 10:45 AM
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I just point it at stuff
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 303
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Working in the Computer wholesale industry, where we import just about everything and it's all purchased in US Dollars, it's unbelievable some of the prices I'm seeing at the moment.
I didn't need the RAM, but bugger me $86 for Corsair 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM.  I paid about $50 more about a month ago for the same stuff!! Couldn't pass that up!
As I've been telling my friends, family, if your in the market to upgrade or replace your PC, now is the best time to buy. And I'm not alone in thinking this. Ever since the AUS Dollar started getting near parity, our sales started picking up in what is normally a fairly slow month. It's like all this talk of parity in the media switched some lights on in people's heads and told them to buy! buy! buy! 
Getting harder and harder to not upgrade my Telescope.......................... ..
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17-10-2010, 03:24 PM
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Waiting for next electron
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,427
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alchemy
The treasury ...... What can they do.
If the reserve puts up interest rates, dollar goes up too.
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Sell gold. The reserve could also act as you have stated. Our exporters will be applying heavy pressure on the fed govt right now.
Mark
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17-10-2010, 06:00 PM
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Starcatcher
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
Posts: 8,548
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Aussie ain't doing much against the Euro 
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17-10-2010, 10:53 PM
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Oh, I See You Are Empty!
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Laramie, WY - United States of America
Posts: 1,555
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
must resist the urge.........
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Resistance is futile...
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17-10-2010, 11:10 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Swan Hill
Posts: 7,102
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Octane
Oh, how sweet it is.
Buy up now, kiddies. Christmas is around the corner.
I'll be putting in a few orders for accessories and bits and pieces. 
H |
aww thats so kind of you H to buy me a chrissy pressie 
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17-10-2010, 11:44 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Tassie
Posts: 1,104
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jules76
Working in the Computer wholesale industry, where we import just about everything and it's all purchased in US Dollars, it's unbelievable some of the prices I'm seeing at the moment.
I didn't need the RAM, but bugger me $86 for Corsair 4GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM. I paid about $50 more about a month ago for the same stuff!! Couldn't pass that up!
As I've been telling my friends, family, if your in the market to upgrade or replace your PC, now is the best time to buy. And I'm not alone in thinking this. Ever since the AUS Dollar started getting near parity, our sales started picking up in what is normally a fairly slow month. It's like all this talk of parity in the media switched some lights on in people's heads and told them to buy! buy! buy!
Getting harder and harder to not upgrade my Telescope.......................... .. |
I'm right in PC upgrade planning mode at the moment - I have been watching the price of components recently and combined with some of the new GPUs due soon I have been hoping the dollar might help me out a bit.
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18-10-2010, 04:59 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Perth
Posts: 1,968
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Quote:
Originally Posted by adman
I have heard someone say that $1.30 was not out of the question, in which case he will have lost $30,000 - he might as well take it to the casino....
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This particular person ( and his wife) have enough $$'$ to wait till it drops back ........ I say lucky, but I mean fortunate/worked their way to be in this position.
Casino=uncertainty, $ dropping sometime in the near future is certain.
Bartman
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20-10-2010, 08:00 AM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
Posts: 33,428
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Oh no its going backwards.....
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28-10-2010, 09:07 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: south east QLD,Australia
Posts: 2,869
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re strong dollar
Well its been a couple of weeks since this has happened,I was most suprised to see the prices on DWI then, on the lenses.I was about to order a EF-S 10-22 Canon lens and it was $734.But I forgot.
Just looked on their website now and the same lens is $716,it had actually gone DOWN!.
Just ordered it,its on its way,Now is the time to buy gear,if one can.Not sure if these prices will stay around for too long.
Interestingly,I imagine this is what people pay in the U.S.A all the time for this gear,really just shows how bad we have it here in Australia.
Looking forward to Monday when my new lens arrives
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28-10-2010, 09:24 PM
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IIS Member #671
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 11,159
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Yep, picking up some new L-series glass on Wednesday and a whole heap of studio lighting equipment.
H
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28-10-2010, 09:44 PM
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ze frogginator
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 22,080
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I bit the bullet last week and got a Baader FFC with all the bits and pieces. Should get it sometime soon now.
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29-10-2010, 12:20 AM
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Highest Observatory in Oz
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Canberra
Posts: 17,689
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Oh great pickup Marc! Is it like a barlow  What will you use it on?
Mike
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29-10-2010, 08:15 AM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW Australia
Posts: 33,428
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Oh great pickup Marc! Is it like a barlow What will you use it on?
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 thats not the point - at least he bought something to proudly show others while it is clouded over this season . Like many others 
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29-10-2010, 08:19 AM
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ze frogginator
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 22,080
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Quote:
Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Oh great pickup Marc! Is it like a barlow What will you use it on?
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Anything. My newt, the C11, <dream mode on> whatever scope I get in the future </dream mode off> . It's a nice piece of glass. I have tried barlowing in the past. I get very good details on axis but the field lets me down. This should act more like a powermate but only better with no or very little abberations. I can do a bit of planetary with it too hopefully.
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Originally Posted by h0ughy
thats not the point - at least he bought something to proudly show others while it is clouded over this season . Like many others |
Wasn't me  
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02-11-2010, 08:34 PM
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Love the moonless nights!
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Sydney
Posts: 2,285
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Dollar is currently sitting at parity 1:1 with the US (and holding at it for the last 3 hrs) tonight thanks to the RBA hiking rates. We could blow through that tonight depending on how aggressive the US Fed is on monetary policy to be released just after midnight.
Retail rates are still at around 96c.
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02-11-2010, 08:54 PM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: south east QLD,Australia
Posts: 2,869
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re dollar
Regardless of the mining boom in Australia,we still may be heading for a dull time,economically-apparently some financial planners and advisers that I was having lunch with today,say things are pretty crook in many business circles in Australia.Some high profile ones are saying things like 'real depression',these people in the 'big end of town' usually aren't that far of the mark with their predictions.
I'd have to agree,would not advising maxing out the plastic,just because of a strong Aussie dollar-you might not have a job to pay it off soon. 
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04-11-2010, 10:15 AM
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Starcatcher
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gerringong
Posts: 8,548
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1.00 AUD = 1.00488 USD and holding!
Time for a "Parity Party" 
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04-11-2010, 11:10 AM
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IIS Member #671
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Canberra
Posts: 11,159
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Chris and I did our bit yesterday and bought a bunch of new stuff. : )
H
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