The exchange rate on the invoice using PayPal for UK Sterling for the date I ordered the kit was $1.52 to the £1.00 but looking back at the exchange rate using XE.com for the same date was $1.56 to the £1.00. As always there will be someone creaming off the top of the transaction, but I was not charged for a International Money exchange by DX except for a $0.01 shipping charge. The $0.04 on the dollar more than compensates for basically free shipping especially on small difficult to get items in the UK such as 18650 cells for example.

At the end of the day a $4 Firesteel delivered to your door from China beats a trip into the town (you can easily pay $4 for just a car parking space for 2hrs) and paying $18 for an equivalent Swedish firesteel at the local outdoor store (although saying that I was there yesterday voting for which Monstrous Carbuncle at one of the local Universities the town will have to endure when they build it next the the RSS Discovery ).