racer98

just as a heads up, if your going to buy anything now in japan do get ready for some price shocks and a very bumpy road with the YEN. Do ask before with the people your buying your parts from to guarantee your exchange rate, if not you could be in for a very big surprise.

towlie

Hmm, this is not an unexpected surprise.

What do you expect the rates to reach?

NNOCENT

care to elaborate on the upcoming shift?

imotion s14

Simple. The monetary policy of the United States is insanity.

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racer98

what he said ^^^^.


just put things in writing when buying.

racer98

$1=55yen.

MADE

$1=55yen

I bet against, I do think it can get bad, but thats insane. I was excited when it hit 85 the other day.







I pray your wrong!

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racer98

once it hits 84 thats the open market rate that is not the price your paying unless you own a bank. its going to be sliding backwards, the cluster f of the meltdown isnt over its been rolled over to other countries.

towlie

Last time I purchased an item it was about 1$=88Y.. It's been continuously heading downwards.

This is not good

essforteen

yen rate sucks and there i nothing we can do about it! Obama aint helping either!
Only good thing about Bush was yen rate was better!! LOL

fliprayzin240sx

You cant really blame Obama...Shit thats going on with the economy was brought on by Bush Era policies.

Anyways, its been bouncing between 80-84 the last couple of weeks. I had a fucking boner when it hit 84.30 offbase while it was 83 on base. I pulled a couple grand and changed that shit quick. 2 days later and it was back down to 81.

I cant wait to get the hell outta here...if shit goes down the shitter, I would hate to be here for it. Then again, the extra $1k is nice...

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tricky_ab

Damn and I was about to order some parts as well! I should get on that sooner then later...

Obama took on a rather crappy economy from the get go...

racer98

must have been a long time ago last time seen it there was think like way last year I paid that rate after the bank fees. Always people quote the rates seen on line when its really open market price with out the bank taking fees, get a ghetto bank and your paying 10-15 points less but if its a good commercial bank with a high clientel of customers from different parts of Asia then 1-3% off the open market rate. Yup Japan holds a fair ammount of our debt so, im hoping for the best but with this debt ceiling coming into play and japan getting choked right now, i'd tell everyone be very cautions but continue on.


I do remember one thing when Bush was in office at the end of his term, remember when fuel prices plumited when there was a flood of fuel on the market and prices got really cheap ? remember paying $1.64 a gallon up in the Sierra's and took an awesome joy ride.


I put on that z about 3k on hitting all of the back roads.

As for Obamanomic's sadly, hes got a really nasty fight on his hands and just really approached things in the wrong way, meaning you have to go at it a little differently when dealing with politics, sure he wanted to deliver on promises but un-forseen problems etc, won't get into this here.

really what needed to happen is get everyone back to work and approach healthcare in a totally different manner + also raise import tarriffs etc, fast track oil/shale programs across the usa / allow drilling in the gluf with out the cluster fuck of paperwork and costs involved, revise how the process is thought out and create a special task force in the military how to deal with oil spills and deep water etc, that is called getting people back to work and new job training.

Phontom economics does not work nor taking a Hawaii vacations while people are loosing their homes, as many people voted for him they see their hero going on a vacation while going to hawaii and next, people are saying (WTF ) they are loosing their home beacause of preditory lenders ?


Obamanomic's would have been a 2 term administration,

if and very simply people who were screwed by A,R,M Mortgage's loans and credit cars were put back into their home, I mean how great that would have been, + also make the banks re-adjust the loan amounts to be paid off + take the commissions back from all of the realtors/loan brokers, and have counties and states lower property taxes etc so people can get back to work.

the credit card reform is a joke, simply put what needed to happen so the usa does not find it self in this spot again, you want a credit card - ok you have to front a cash deposit and also credit cards need to allow some sort of insurance program that lets people write off their credit card amount owed and not have that sort of debt Nationalized to the public.


Lets agree to disagree with this one but when it comes down to it things are horridly messed up. Look at the one Skyline R33 that was a stripped roller frame was repoed by ICE, but wait, there are over 1+m illegals in the usa/exploiting/medical and whole bunch of other things out there as well.

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got smart made some $ .

just make sure you get stuff in writing and becareful now, instead of greddy parts in japan, sadly there are a lot of freddy knock off parts.

essforteen

It was a Joke hence the "LOL"

towlie

Racer98, it was last month. I could have been wrong though, I used an app on my phone and it said something like $1=87.7855

And that picture of the Z looks like it could be in a brochure lol

racer98

yup.

never seen that rate, yup i'd like to be back there and checking out the roads, I was escorted out by an unmarked LEO truck for the Yosemite valley. I got there as soon the gates opened up talk about epic roads.

towlie

Well, that's iPhone applications for you I guess

tricky_ab

For sure, thanks for the heads up.

jamg

wish i still did forex

i woulda shorted the hell out of USD and got out quick!

Toi

Still waiting, if it hits that bad things will have to change.....my paycheck included!

xpertsnowcarver

1 oz gold = $1500
That's where my money is going.

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Toi

I did that back when it was around $750 to 1 oz, but my best bet was AMD, their stock went way down in the $2 range so dropped some serious coin into, and so far I am very happy I did!!

racer98

thats

NSANY bought before renalut took over ($3 per) now its ok.

Geno750

A buddy of mine talked me into doing the same thing, only with Silver. I am very happy he did. We both (he invested much more aggressively than I did, to my regret) bought a few thousand dollars worth last July. When I looked today, its doing very well.

shiftdrift

82.305=1 as of now

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MadScientist

This is where it was in 2002 when I started importing parts.
Lets just say anything lower is... well (see: monetary policy of the United States in post #4)!!!

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iStayBroke

Shit I remember yen rates of like 120something=1

Hopefully I can still pick up some parts when I go home for the summer.

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towlie

120 to 1 was amazing, everything was dirt cheap

*sigh*

yokotas13

i remember it was 135 to 1!!!!

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Toi

Same here I remember at one point it hit 150 to 1 for a few days.....That was how I acquired my HKS 2835pro back then LOL