AUSSIE DOLLAR WORTH $1.07 US... IT HIT $1-10 YESTERDAY...
68AutoBug - December 25th, 2010 at 12:39 AM
[size=5]YIKES NOW $1-07c US
THE AUSSIE DOLLAR IS WORTH MORE THAN THE USA DOLLAR.
WHAT WILL THIS MEAN TO US????
I READ WHERE A VW JETTA COSTS $16,000 IN THE USA...
[PLUS $16,000 TO SHIP IT OVER AND CHANGE TO RHD....] 
LEE
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vlad01 - December 25th, 2010 at 08:05 AM
Yes I know.
68AutoBug - December 25th, 2010 at 04:48 PM
MAYBE OUR PETROL WILL GET CHEAPER...???
although I read where petrol with Ethanol may get more expensive as the floods have wiped out crops used to make ethanol...
and NON Ethanol petrol won't be phased out for at least another Year....
bit hard if there isn't any ethanol... lol
LEE
Thatbrickhurts - December 28th, 2010 at 02:19 PM
You cannot import a VW Jetta into this country.
Sides - December 28th, 2010 at 02:26 PM
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Really ??? Volkswagen Australia do it all the time... they'd have brought thousands of 'em in over the last few years...
HappyDaze - December 28th, 2010 at 02:51 PM
There ya go, Sides - thickasabrick has spoken!
Sides - December 28th, 2010 at 03:09 PM
HappyDaze - December 28th, 2010 at 03:19 PM
Not many people have told me to GF, and got away with it as lightly as he did.
Gary L - December 28th, 2010 at 04:29 PM
Will be shopping on line very soon, sorry about that Gerry Harvey the only plus for you is it is usually VW gear
Snap Crackle Bang - December 28th, 2010 at 08:55 PM
What if we bring some Jettas in as $999 pieces (to avoid GST)?
68AutoBug - December 28th, 2010 at 11:34 PM
shame we can't import some cheap electricity
if our dollar is doing so well...... ????
Have you noticed that Our Dollar is worth $1-34NZ
so, a holiday in New Zealand would be cheap.... lol
LEE
Jettas in the USA are made in the USA and are LHD.... Lee
there is a VW plant in Alabama...
cam070 - July 26th, 2011 at 06:28 PM
Just saw on the news we topped US$1.09, when will it stop?
volumex - July 26th, 2011 at 06:56 PM
When the Republicans and Democrats stop fighting like kids in the schoolyard...
68AutoBug - July 26th, 2011 at 07:32 PM
I read recently that the post office is losing around $1 per small package from China and other Asian countries...
well I cost them $3 today... lol
battery for My mobile phone
10 x ac/dc bridge rectifiers
6 watt 12 volt mr16 LED down light
looks like Dick Smiths has changed into a Harvey Norman electrical store...
no more resistors, capacitors, diodes or wire by the meter..
Lee
ian.mezz - July 26th, 2011 at 07:35 PM
yes we been buying lots of vw stuff from the USA 
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Just saw on the news we topped US$1.09, when will it stop?
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vwbugsrule - July 26th, 2011 at 08:08 PM
This is the reason why i have been buying me parts from america. Parts + postage from America is cheaper than buying parts here !!! 
bus914 - July 26th, 2011 at 08:50 PM
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It means that manufacturing will shortly cease to exist here.
cam070 - July 26th, 2011 at 10:28 PM
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It means that manufacturing will shortly cease to exist here.
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Does anyone actually still make anything here?
Nikos - July 27th, 2011 at 06:20 AM
Yes, but it's getting harder.
Given the growth in our economy and population, our manufacturing industry is smaller now than it was 50 years ago.
The scary thing is we're in the middle of a mining boom, and our industry is struggling to survive. What will happen when this boom cycle
finishes,....which it will.
Nick.
Ben386 - July 27th, 2011 at 08:21 AM
It means that retail and manufacturering will suffer here.
donn - July 27th, 2011 at 08:33 AM
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It means that retail and manufacturering will suffer here.
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while we keep buying on line from overseas !
AUSSIE_MICK - July 27th, 2011 at 09:58 AM
It means that a lot of us will have to go without our toys
Ben386 - July 27th, 2011 at 10:19 PM
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It means that retail and manufacturering will suffer here.
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while we keep buying on line from overseas !
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whilst buying off shore is good short term,long term all you do is prop the os economies up,whilst ours will go to the shit.People are still not
spending money,dont believe what the goverment might say about a booming economy.Retail is still dead right now.Has been for 12 months or so.
AUSSIE_MICK - July 28th, 2011 at 06:29 AM
I had first hand experience, retail has been dead for the last year. So glad i sold my shop!
Lucky Phil - July 29th, 2011 at 09:58 AM
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posted by Nikos
Yes, but it's getting harder.
Given the growth in our economy and population, our manufacturing industry is smaller now than it was 50 years ago.
The scary thing is we're in the middle of a mining boom, and our industry is struggling to survive. What will happen when this boom cycle
finishes,....which it will.
Nick. [/quote
IT's happening now. I have just dismissed my two employees and am in the process of downsizing to just me'n the missus.
There is money out there but no one is spending atm.
The upside is I have had more time lately for the toys!
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donn - July 29th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
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posted by Nikos
Yes, but it's getting harder.
Given the growth in our economy and population, our manufacturing industry is smaller now than it was 50 years ago.
The scary thing is we're in the middle of a mining boom, and our industry is struggling to survive. What will happen when this boom cycle
finishes,....which it will.
Nick. [/quote
IT's happening now. I have just dismissed my two employees and am in the process of downsizing to just me'n the missus.
There is money out there but no one is spending atm.
The upside is I have had more time lately for the toys!
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Maybe they are spending, just that with the dollar so good over seas then it is being spent os, and with the dollar the way it is makes our exports
more expensive, can't have it both ways. 
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SebastienPeek - July 29th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
It's great for us that are buying stuff online, but for where I work, it is a ball breaker.
68AutoBug - July 29th, 2011 at 08:03 PM
I wonder what it would be if We weren't exporting coal????
Lee