I have to agree - and we've seen it happen before, where a deck (or two) that should have funded ended up falling on its sword mostly because of the fact that they were in British Pounds, Euros or what have you. The NZ$ is the reverse of those, meaning that 30NZ$ < $30US, and it doesn't work that way with GBP nor Euros, in fact it's way opposite, in fact the British units of monetary measure have always been 'larger' than the US$, and likely always will.Cbkimble wrote:I think that's what it is. How many of you have seen a project in NZd before? This was my first. I took the time to see the conversion rate but a lot of people probably didn't. There may have been a lot of people that, after seeing the conversion of USD to POUND/EURO, just assumed that the conversion was going to cost them more. I still think it should've done much better but it was also around the first of the year and just before tax season in the US was in full swing. If he had waited two to four weeks, I think he would've done better. Timing is everything and can make the difference between 65,000 and 100,000.Sher wrote:The different currency might be an issue, but I don't think it should be. Google makes it so easy to convert currency. All you have to do is type, "165 nzd to usd" to get the approximate amount in dollars. I admit, I'm a little cautious on projects in £ or € but that's because the exchange rate would have me paying more dollars per £ or € (so seeing £20 means I'll be paying more than $20). With nzd, it's actually the other way around. You'd be paying less dollars per nzd (so 20 nzd means I'll be paying less than $20).
That being said, imagine my frustration trying to deal (recently) with this company in Taiwan that quotes everything in NT$ (New Taiwanese dollars) that are in fact worth about 3 cents 'Merikun. That means that around 65NT$ is around $2US. It's baffling to me, because unless you look closely it's all just in dollars, or appears to be, and when I saw $65 for shipping, I like to choked. Fact is that it just over $2US because it's 65NT$ actually.
Anyway, way off course, here - NZD 'costs' less than USD, and we're not used to that, in fact I'm quite aware simply because I'm an "All Blacks" fan (their national rugby team), and in fact have an All Blacks jersey I wear when the time comes. Just because we don't fully understand something we're put off by it, that's just human nature. In fact it's just going to slow them down, which is why on CardLauncher everything funds in UD$, everybody has to have a US-based bank account to do business with CL, and in my mind that's a good thing. Now, I'm sure some people will P&M just like they do about anything having to do with 'change', again - it's human nature.
