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Owen Rascovitch

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1951 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

She's like, oh, is this the right?

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Sounds all right.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And I'm like, yeah, I didn't check it.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

So, it's on me for this.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

But I'm like, yeah, sure.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Sounds fine.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

She went to like a Travel X or something down at the Chadson's Shopping Center here in Victoria.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Turns out we budgeted a certain amount of money for our trip.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And then when we got over there, we realized we were running behind.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

We were like two days behind on our money that we budgeted.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Why the heck are we so far behind?

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And we couldn't work it out no matter what.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And then what we did is we went back to the original receipt that we got for the currency transfer.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And we realized that we actually got something like 10% to 20% less than the market rate that you see on Google.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Wow.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

right we thought yeah you know we'll pay five percent three percent either side of that which is what would be normal but it was like 10 or 20 percent yeah and that translated to like two days worth of spending money that we missed out on because we didn't check the rate and we just went to some shoddy joint at a shopping center yeah so there's a few things there one of them is transferring currencies you obviously haven't i'm guessing you haven't done that yet

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

One thing that people always say is like, you know, you've got to get in now because the currency is going down.

Australian Finance Podcast
Financially Planning a Holiday

And another thing is, you know, an Australian dollar only buys this much Great British Pound or US dollar.