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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Heh, just realised. If you buy anything from Plemix.com, its a good idea to watch the exchange rate and check back daily. The prices of all their products fluctuate according to the exchange rates, so when the NZ dollar is strong, the prices go down instantly. So in the past couple of days, the price of the G900 has gone down a few dollars. If our dollar gets stronger and stronger, you might pick up a bargain. I'm not too smart with all this so I don't know how much of a difference it could make, but it may be worth it!
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Posted: 2008-05-30 17:17:40
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Regarding the exchange rate, a strong NZ dollar is a bad thing for our economy, strange as that sounds!
Inflation has risen over the last few years because of high retail spending and an out of control property market. The Labour Govt requires the reserve bank to keep inflation between 1 - 3% (currently 3.4%
) and the only tool it is given to use is interest rates. We have the highest interest rates in the developed world causing overseas investors to buy our currency which has put our dollar up to record values.
As you know, retail spending and property values have fallen but inflation is still high due to food and oil prices and doesn't look like falling anytime soon. Keep an eye on the OCR (Official Cash Rate) - the rate that the Reserve Bank charges the retail Banks for currency. If they put it up or keep it the same then the dollar will stay high.
Come November we could have a change of Govt and finally some fiscal managers who know what they're doing... and the Reserve Bank could get some new toys with which to lower interest rates and the dollar.
So long term, it a good time to buy from Plemix, but between now and November is the best time.
I read today that VodafoneNZ has backed down and will NOT go ahead with its plans to lock phones to its network. It copped alot of flak apparently
I was particularly scathing in my reply to the Herald blog on the matter, and rightly so. No-one in thier right mind supports SIM locking!
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Posted: 2008-05-30 18:30:03
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Just a sidenote on ur friday night -
Palmy is the same. Me and my flatmate got knocked up by a hol gang of guys, so we couldnt do anything. Really pissed me off and i got a few bruises on my face but luckily i was fine. They were really going for it too, this one guy wacked me about 6 or 7 times before he gave up. (He hit like a girl
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Posted: 2008-05-31 03:24:54
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Thanks carkitter.
I always find it a bit hard to understand everything to do with the economy and interest rates, etc. So before November you say? I think I will upgrade before then.
On 2008-05-31 03:24:54, soane28 wrote:
Just a sidenote on ur friday night -
Palmy is the same. Me and my flatmate got knocked up by a hol gang of guys, so we couldnt do anything. Really pissed me off and i got a few bruises on my face but luckily i was fine. They were really going for it too, this one guy wacked me about 6 or 7 times before he gave up. (He hit like a girl
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Sounds like you got it a lot worse than we did! Luckily it was just the two guys and there were four of us. My brother said it felt like he was hit with a cushion.
So I guess whatever they had been taking had clouded their judgment and they couldn't really have hurt us if they tried! Haha. Still its not the greatest thing ever to be attacked for absolutely no reason on your night out. It makes you wonder what's going through these guys' heads!
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Posted: 2008-05-31 14:52:37
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K770i reduced to $399 at Vodafone online shop.
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Posted: 2008-06-02 01:02:16
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oli - Yeah for sure, it shouldnt happen none the less!
$399 is quite a reasonable price for the K770. Id pay that much for it.
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Posted: 2008-06-02 01:38:54
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Yeah thats a good price for the K770i. I feel like they should be ready to remove the K800i now...
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Posted: 2008-06-02 07:43:39
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On 2008-06-02 07:43:39, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
I feel like they should be ready to remove the K800i now...
Put it out of its misery more like...
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Posted: 2008-06-02 08:29:53
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well the k800 is still a damn good phone, i still enjoy mine, although it is starting to look a bit chunky.i got the brown one, i think it looked alot nicer (+ different) to the plain black one.i've gotta say too, that i really quite like the backside of the k770.very nice lens cover.
just like to point out wellington is better than all those other violent cities you live in.sucks to be you guys eh??
[ This Message was edited by: K71 on 2008-06-03 12:28 ]
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Posted: 2008-06-03 13:27:25
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Since you live in Wellington, are you gonna go see the Shell V-power petrol launch complete with F1 replica race car and Ferrari road car display? They also have 2 driving simulators using a PS3 F1 game which is quite cool.
I have some pics of the Auckland launch
here, 'cause after all Auckland gets everything first...
It seems the iPhone 3G countdown has begun. I wonder if ISP servers/Apples website/Google/the Internet will crash on June 9 (Californian time zone)
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Posted: 2008-06-04 06:57:19
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