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Re: How bout a break on the exchange rate

• TheTommyD 140 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2016 2:03 PM

  Love the WGT game. It cost's me 30% plus to buy balls etc. How about a break for us who pay a lot? I know you're a business how bout a Canuck special at par....Thanks.

  Edit for all of us who pay high exchange rate...

   

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2016 3:27 PM

  User's workaround #57: Buy cheaper balls.

  User's workaround #57 bis: Move to the USA.

  For me, it's a priviledge here to buy my way into the game at the price that I wanna pay!

  All is possible between "for free" and "expensive", and all is in our own and undivided responsibility. Take it!

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2016 3:37 PM

  TheTommyD:

  It cost's me 30% plus to buy balls etc.

  Whilst I can relate to that, it is no different than buying something on EBay where you have to pay in the currency of the seller.

  We all have the control on what you spend or choose not to spend. Possibly like you, I have very limited chances to earn additional "free credits" with only the carousel available daily (7 views). So I pay to play and as I do not play much due to time constraints, I use a Nike ball. If I played more I would probably use a Cally or cheaper.....as I said, it is choice.

  But overall. I still think the game offers very good value for a form of entertainment.

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Tue, Sep 6 2016 5:03 PM

  I feel Tommy's pain to a degree. I gifted $7 Nikes during one of the charities, and it cost me over $10 Cdn. Then something extraordinary happened. My daughter and her family decided to go to Disney World in Florida for 2 weeks...the world's biggest tourist trap, at a time when our dollar was at an all time low. 

  Because our little "princess" finally realized she didn't have the coin, her mother suggested she send the bill to dear old Dad. 

  I am going to die a poor and broken man...a shell of my former self. A paupers' funeral awaits me.

  ps: I got a donald duck coffee mug for my trouble...oi vey

• phred952 2,714 Posts

  Thu, Sep 8 2016 7:47 AM

  ct690911:

  Because our little "princess" finally realized she didn't have the coin, her mother suggested she send the bill to dear old Dad. 

  I am going to die a poor and broken man...a shell of my former self. A paupers' funeral awaits me.

  ps: I got a donald duck coffee mug for my trouble...oi vey

  CT, the only way to get even is to live long enough to be a problem to your kids.

  phred952

• adella71 843 Posts

  Thu, Sep 8 2016 2:39 PM

  TheTommyD:

  It cost's me 30% plus to buy balls etc.

   

  Hi Tommy D,

  Us "Safricans" are at about 15 ZAR to 1 USD, so a sleeve of Callies of 300cr costs me R45 a pop,..imagine paying 45 bucks for 3 virtual balls...and be glad you are Canadian ;-)

  As the previous comments said...It comes down to choices in the end: I could never afford Nike's or great equipment, but I make do with what I've got.

  And P.S. not many "free credit offers" are available to us either, so that is really not any help.