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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
Penguinbait:
- You paid an amount X in dollars that was equivalent to an amount Y pounds at the time.
- You got refunded Y pounds, to a new exchange rate, amounting to Z dollars.
- When you re-order, you will have to pay that exact same Y pounds that you originally paid, and which you got refunded.
- To pay those Y pounds you now only have to pay Z dollars.

In other words, unless the exchange rate fluctuates a lot between you receiving the refund and you re-ordering you'll end up with losing whatever extra charges you had to pay at the time of the original ordering (and whatever charges you have to pay now). You _don't_ lose due to the exchange rate changes: The pound dropped compared to the dollar. You got less dollars back, but there are less dollars to pay, for the same reason.

Now, if that CC re-order link could just get ready.. apparently it depends on those final refunds reaching some US customers. It's all in the hands of that darn bank, apparently.

I understand, and as I stated, I had better not be charged more than $304.11. However if I had at this point decided to NOT reorder, I would be out about $69. Quite honestly if N900 was out I would not even reorder, and I would just lose my $69. The Pandora console for me though was never about a maemo replacment, it was about having a handy dandy little gaming device that runs linux too.
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