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Currencies accepted in Sweden (except of SEK)
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Room_service said on July 2, 2006 06:26:
First, I don’t know this topic belongs to this section. But as I didn’t know, here I am.
A friend of mine is travelling to Sweden in early August as a exchange student. My intention is to give him some money to get some stuff in Stockholm (where he will stay for 3 days). By the point is I can’t get Swedish crowns here in Buenos Aires. I wonder if the big stores there could accept euros or any other major currency. For example, here in Buenos Aires the big stores can take Argentine pesos, US dollars or euros. If they only accept crowns, I don’t know he will be allowed to change the money into SEK, since he’s only 17.
That’s all. I hope someone can bring some light on this. Thanks
Jud (moderator) said on July 2, 2006 12:34:
I would ask the stores where you want your friend to go if they accept Euro, if so, I guess I’d give him Euro..
If not.. I would give your friend pesos, and he can change it to SEK in Sweden. Otherwise if you give him Euro, you’ll pay exchange fees twice: pesos to Euro, Euro to SEK.
Is it second hand music stores?
Room_service said on July 2, 2006 20:29:
Thanks for the suggestion. I think I will give him euros. I suppose they could be accepted in Stockholm. At least, won’t be any major trouble to change them for crowns.
roxlad said on July 2, 2006 20:47:
I used Euros both in Sweden and Estonia without any problems. In Sweden I bought the CD ’Konstpaus’ and I was in Malmö so I believe in Stockholm is even easier. They told me they accept Euros but not Eurocents and sometimes they embed a commission in the final price.
tevensso (moderator) said on July 3, 2006 16:41:
The euro is not commonly accepted, but some stores do accept it for the hell of it, like they say though, you get a really lousy deal. The only currency that is accepted everywhere is the krona. Of course you can exchange both dollars and euros at banks etc.
per_mson said on July 4, 2006 08:24:
I would give him your currency RoomService. The reason is that if you first have to exchange your money to Euros you will have to pay fees. When he later on exchanges the Euros to SEK he will have to pay fees again. But if you give him your currency he will only pay that one fee in Sweden when getting the SEK. Shopping with Euros in Stockholm I would absolutely not suggest. It might of course work, but as Tev said, you will get a really lousy exchange course and loose a lot of money that way.
GT_85 said on July 4, 2006 09:09:
Check out http://www.forex.se/ You can choose swedish in the upper right corner.
I guess it would be better to change on of the major currencies. There are no fees at the big exchange offices.
And the smaller currencies, like you own, are under-valuated in Sweden.
Room_service said on July 7, 2006 03:31:
I wonder why Sweden was not included in the Euro zone (the UK and Norway did the same). That would be better for the fans, they are so selfish!!! (LOL)
Thanks for the kind replies. I think Euros is the best option. I don’t think our local currency would be exchanged in Sweden. It happened I sent pesos to a friend in Spain. He sent them back, because the bank didn’t accept that currency. I guess it is the same the other way round: Swedish crowns are not accepted here either. Only major currencies (US dollars, euros, pounds,yens) and currencies from neighbor countries are accepted. I suppose that’s why they are not able to realise a bank note from an “exotic” country is real or false. It would be difficult to learn about each currency of the world.
roxlad said on July 7, 2006 23:01:
W Euro!
W European Federation (if it will ever exist)
And now the flamings will come.... :)
chrisjankunas said on July 8, 2006 00:45:
Euros would not suit the UK economy at this current time ! And I like the £s :D
roxlad said on July 8, 2006 18:42:
Yep I agree but there’s no rush. Also I miss the Lira sometimes but now I’m starting to feel as the Euro had always been there. It took me nearly 4 years to ’think’ in Euros, I only keep thinking in Lire when it’s very large amount of money.
Room_service said on August 3, 2006 05:01:
After all, I found a bank that works with all the European currencies. They have Swedish crowns, so there is not worries anymore. It is the best choice.
By the way, I’d like to know how much is the average price for a CD single in a store like Åhléns. That’s the only place I know to address my friend. He’s going to live in Karlstad, and I know they have a store over there.
Thanks
Jud (moderator) said on August 3, 2006 05:47:
:O Karlstad, I have bad memories of that city, full of drunk people and damn boring place (sorry for those who come from there, but I’ve been there a couple of times and it was the same all the time) :O
Anyway, you can check the prices in cdon.se - normally the prices are about the same.
I think new CDs start to sell at 179, 169sek (normally digipacks or special editions) or 149 if they are some special offer/artist of the month or so. And they go down to 159, 129, 99, 79, 59 etc after some time - I remember I once bought the GT Återtåget for 49 sek :P
Any Swede confirm? :)
Room_service said on August 3, 2006 06:26:
So, I suppose a CD-single is never more expensive than 30/40 SEK, really?
Strest said on August 3, 2006 19:25:
Judith: FU :P (been living in Karlstad about 28 years and 9 months ... + 4 days in Borås now)
Seriously though, it’s a great city so too bad you didn’t like it :)
Have you been there during the summer?
Jud (moderator) said on August 3, 2006 20:03:
Totally off-topic: April and July.. The city was .. an average Swedish city:) But what I didn’t like at all were the people >:@
April 03 we went to see Buddaboys (Eva D’s band), we had been to Göteborg and told them we’d go to Karlstad and they even asked if “we really wanted to go there O_o” - and warned us that we would not enjoy the concert because people get badly drunk, push, like to fight etc..
And it was true >:@ At least we got a free ride on their bus. To start with, most people HAD drank a bit too much. I got the impression me, my gf and the Norwegian girls next to us were the only sober people in the whole pub (and the band ;))
When they went on stage (which wasn’t so high, a fence was in between the band and the audience and there should have been a guard...), a totally drunk woman walked behind the fence, she wanted to give Eva a rose, and on her way to Eva she dropped all her drink on the stage and cables, specially Mija’s guitar cables - so they had to check everything, dry etc. Then she tried to step on the stage and hug Eva.. and meanwhile the guard standing there laughing. The Norwegian and I pulled the woman away from the stage with the help of another guy (guard?) that took her away. During part of the concert we had some drunk stupid idiots pushing us and wanting to get first row, but we teamed up with the Norwegian that were next to us and after being ignored by tue guard, we fought back ourselves with our elbows until they gave up ;) And by the end some old drunk dude started to push us as well.
Experience in July wasn’t better. Different placeS, same drunk amount of people O_o. I don’t like drunk in general, but even less if they get violent.
We also thought people weren’t as helpfull as in other Swedish cities, I have been in Sweden quite some times and I’ve always met people ready to help you with information, directions etc.. Karlstad was the only place of all I’ve been where we were treated rude, and not only by one person.
AND a friend of mine has lived there for some long while and agrees with all this :P
Strest said on August 3, 2006 20:25:
Ah yeah, that club sucked. It was always too crowded. It got closed 1-2 years ago since they couldn’t get a new deal with the hotel (Stadt).
Well, I’m not really a clubperson. I prefer to have drink at some nice bar and be able to talk so I cannot say much about the different clubs and how drunk the guests are...
Just too bad you didn’t get to know the Karlstad I know and love :/
per_mson said on August 4, 2006 09:11:
No offense to the people living in Karlstad, but I have to agree with Judith that it is a shit boring place. Have been there a few times, but I have never really found anything fun/useful to look at/do in that city. Brrrr!!! Never again! ;-))
@Room Service: You shouldn’t buy CDs at Åhléns! They are probably one of the most expensive stores in Sweden when it comes to records! I do know there is a normal little record store in Karlstad (somewhere in the middle of the city close to the square). They most likely have better prices!
Strest said on August 4, 2006 09:52:
That’d be Mega-Hertz, but I don’t know if they’re cheaper than Åhléns.
IMO they’re both expensive.
CD-singles are quite cheap at Åhléns though.
It’s somwhat cheaper to buy CD’s at Bergvik (OBS! and Ica Maxi), the shopping center about 5 km’s outside of the central Karlstad.
However, they don’t have as many titles as Åhléns and Mega-Hertz does.
Strest said on August 4, 2006 09:55:
But since he’s gonna be living in Sweden it’s easier and cheaper to buy stuff from CDOn.com.
As a student he should even be able to get free shipping (not that it costs that much anyway, just 29 SEK).
Jud (moderator) said on August 4, 2006 18:23:
actually this is what I wanted to ask Room_service, if your friend is going to live in K for a while, I think it would be cheaper to order at ginza.se or cdon.se - the postage is I think 29sek which is pretty much like nothing.. and I’m sure in the end cheaper than buying at Ahlens..?
Room_service said on August 4, 2006 23:02:
I don’t know if buying at cdon is possible for him. As long as I know he doesn’t have a credit card. I don’t know if cdon accepts other kind of payment method.
By the way, he left yesterday. He must be in Stockholm by now, where he will stay for 3 days. I haven’t heard from him since Wednesday. Poor guy, you have been talking about Karlstad and it looks like the same hell, haha! I hope he won’t be disappointed, because he MUST stay there for almost a year. Anyway, he told me about a girl that also travelled to Sweden in the past, as a exchange student. And she found her destiny in a little, dull town in the South of Sweden. She was very bored, because there was nothing to do over there. Maybe Karlstad is not as good as Stockholm, but it’s a medium city with some stores and such. I believe a small town (with 5000 inhabitants, for example) is even worse. I also found this in Wikipedia:
“Karlstad officially adopted a sun as its symbol in 2000. Allegedly the sun also signifies the friendly warmth of the inhabitants of Karlstad.”
But you all have said that, in fact, they are not that friendly. This must be a joke!
Strest said on August 5, 2006 05:38:
The sun, also, comes from a waitress who lived in Karlstad more than 100 years ago called Sola´ i Karlstad (Sol = Sun) and the fact Karlstad is one of the cities with the most sun hours in Sweden.
Regarding CDOn, you can pay w/o a credit card if you chose to pay via invoice, however, paying invoices is rather expensive unless you’ve got an Internet bank account .
Another solution would be if you had him deposit money to a Swedish member who can help him out with the order.
per_mson said on August 5, 2006 09:05:
@room service: I never said the people in Karlstad wasn’t friendly! The place I found dull, but the people there was nothing wrong with. :)
Was she bored in the south of Sweden you say?! That’s THE civilization in Sweden (despite what the people in Stockholm says... but they are after all not that big and they are far from the rest of Europe). ;)
Jud (moderator) said on August 5, 2006 12:16:
I met the nicest of the people in middle-north Sweden, Per-Axel aside :D
speaking of going there as a tourist and visiting places and asking people for help, hotels, restaurants etc :)
Room_service: do you know if your friend will open a bank account with a Swedish bank? if so, I think it’s easy to get internet banking and pay the orders via internet with the invoice you get with the package :)
ally77 said on July 2, 2006 11:59:
You would be best to either give him your own currency and get him to change it to SEK when he gets there exchange places everywhere in Sweden!
Or give him Euros and change into SEK when he gets there....
Although I think ever shop will accept Euros in Stockholm!