[Evgeniuz]

You can just buy some on eBay.

I once made a wager (which I lost) with a friend for "a million dollars" as a joke, but then found that you can just buy trillions (at the time) of zimbabwean dollars easily, so I bought some and delivered :) Funnily, they sell it on eBay at a price higher than their exchange rate (and that's excluding shipping).

[knocte]

>Funnily, they sell it on eBay at a price higher than their exchange rate

Doing the opposite of that would mean a man delivering letters with money in them with nothing in return. Sounds too philanthropic, especially when we're talking about money here.

[Evgeniuz]

I haven't thought about it this way, this actually makes sense. Insane margins threw me off.

[nostrademons]

Doesn't that allow an arbitrage situation, where you can buy Zimbabwe dollars through official channels and then sell them on E-bay for more than they cost you? Or maybe the "official" exchange rate is depressed through shortages and risk in completing the transaction.

[Evgeniuz]

I think supply/demand may get in the way: not that many people need zimbabwean dollars, just some collectors and those who seek them for novelty value. Market will become saturated pretty quickly.

[yincrash]

There are also websites that try and pump up the currencies as get rich schemes.[1]

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2gzafs/spou...