AFitz10368 wrote:

Gee Harry, I would just quit buying anything from there. I quit French wines
a few months back, finished my "Grand Marnier" and don't plan to buy any more.
Although I have driven BMW's since the mid 80's and bought new ones every few
years, my next automobile purchace may be a Chevrolet....

Hope you have a good holiday...

//Al

...seem to be becoming the "lingua franca" of currency for purchases in
Europe? US dollars used to speak mightily, but more and more I'm coming
across vendors abroad who have dropped their references to dollars and
want payment in Euros. This isn't inconvenient when paying with
plastique, but there sure seems to be a downward shift in the intrinsic
value and usefulness of the dollar.


Really? I just bought a case of moderately priced French wine. I'm not a
big fan of France, but my dislike of the French is of long standing and
has nothing to do with their disdain for the idiot in the White House.
They do make some fine wines.

I am not a fan of GM cars, except for the Corvette, which I believe is a
good value sports car. I also like Chevy trucks, though, for a
full-sized hauler, I prefer Ford's F250 with the six liter diesel. GM's
cars, for the most part, seem unclever and cheaply engineered.

The issue, though, was not the relative quality of merchandise, but the
rise of the Euro and the decline of the dollar as lingua franca.






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