Being an Australian consumer pretty much sucks!

I'm going to give you a great example of where I'm going with this one.

Among other purchases, one of the titles I recently picked up from Amazon UK was Surrogates on Blu-Ray, and I got it for £8.50. The Aussie dollar is currently fetching £0.57, which means that, in my currency, I paid approximately $14.91AU for it.

The only problem is, Surrogates is still selling for $40.00AU over here, and I put that in italics because that's pretty much the price it released at.

So yeah, the situation blows over here. I could hit you with a lot more, like how corrupt the banks and the government are, but you get the point.

Out of curiosity, the Aussie dollar would have to drop from buying £0.57 to buying only £0.21 before I would be better off just getting it from a local store. I don't think it's ever been that low.