Living in Canada has been a nightmare recently with the low Canadian dollar. I remember the days when the Canadian dollar was at par with the American dollar, I used to shop in the states, and online all the time. Now that I can't get as much for my Canadian dollar as I used to I started using non-bank currency exchange services for a while to save on the exchange rate. I've been using service in Toronto called KnightsbridgeFX, but I found a really sweet resource for anyone to use, anywhere in the world, to convert any type of currency: http://www.mycurrencytransfer.com/