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Subject: Re: which Carib islands use Euros? Posted on: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:46:33 +0200

Cruising Chrissy wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:39:19 +0200, Ken Tough
>>The EC$ is directly tied to the US$, too. Most of the islands
>>are more than willing to accept them, usually at a special rate
>>of say 10% more than you ought to be paying. In the cruise ship
>>zones, prices are often made in US$ to justify charging 3x as
>>much as they should for a beer.

>How do you figure the 3x multiplier using US $$ ??

(The standard US$ to EC$ conversion is 2.67 odd..) I'm talking
about selling a beer for, whatever, $5 and charging US for it
rather than EC. Using the '$' to mean either currency can
trick somebody once.

--
Ken Tough