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RE: Steem Bounty - What Is The Best Way To Buy Inflation Money Notes In Bulk (e.g. Venezuelan Bolivar, Zimbabwean Dollar)?

in #money8 years ago

Hahahah, that would be cool though! But no, I want to use it as a conversation starter about crypto and the need for decentralized money :-)

I might indeed be the case that they would not allow the money to leave the country in bulk. I've managed to buy a few notes on Marktplaats, but that is it. Couldn't find bulk.

Do you happen to know how expensive shipping gets from Zimbabwe? From experience I know that for instance from South-East Asia it is pretty cheap, don't know about Zimbabwe.

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I am not 100% certain but I believe shipping to/from Zimbabwe is expensive. The people I know who travel there once complained to me about how they sent some brochures there (or received from there) and they had to pay 30-40$ in shipping or so.

There's not a lot of freight between there and here, like with S-E Asia, so they pretty much have to make the way down specifically for that one package (almost, anyway) which makes it expensive

if you want to make a point about money and devaluation you should look if you can see if you can find some old german marks or polish zlotys. Otherwise it's easy to disregard inflation as something that happens far away, in crappy countries. And I'm sure there's some german bills floating around in the netherlands