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Re: Money changer - My tips & his tricks
MiSO, I know it sounds lame , but I did count the money changers.I come through the airport @ 8-9 times per year and I always think there are too many...so I counted them.Singapore has @ 23million visitors per year and only has 2 money changers in each terminal. Good old Bali has @ 2million visitors a year with 16 money changers....a little over the top :D :D :D . Hey, scantily clad girls hanging out of windows seems better to me :D
Re: Money changer - My tips & his tricks
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Re: Money changer - My tips & his tricks
If changing money is a "worst (case) scenario" then you've planned for it by bringing the cash in the first place or do I see that wrong?Originally Posted by MiSO
In which case you've planned for the worst case scenario so you could just as easily and much more safely have planned for it by depositing your dosh on the credit card???
As to the last part of your comment, well a picture speaks a 1000 words there Miso lol :lol:
Re: Money changer - My tips & his tricks
Not all money changers are robbers, but there are a lot of them.
I rarely use them myself preferring to use ATMs (not always "risk-free" either). I know of a group of money changers in Sanur that are dishonest. I know this because I got ripped off more than once and I don't regard myself as "green". I also know of totally honest ones.
Some early warning signs are things like too-good-to-true exchange rates, walking inside and being told the rates posted outside haven't been updated yet. The current rates are different.
Sleight of hand techniques are common and it doesn't matter how good one's eyesight is, the hand can be quicker than the eye.
Counting and recounting doesn't always work because of the money "dropping out of sight" momentarily. If the exchanged money physically leaves your sight for any "reason" or any length of time, count it again.
The rigged calculator scamming is not unusual. Use your own.
Some Indonesians rig their weighing scales with magnets when you're buying fish, for example, or anything that can be weighed. Finding more little stones/rocks in your raw rice than usual is another scam.
I read "Borje's" letter of complaint in The Bali Post, (link posted by Admin above).
Anybody who gets pushed around and intimidated by "airport porters" upon arrival in a new country, to the point of changing $800 in the process, and paying several porters Rp 200,000 each, shouldn't be travelling. Or, at the very least, read a copy of "Travelling For Idiots" first.
It's a real shame that the airport authorities don't put a stop to these kinds of rip-offs. I wonder what they're waiting for?
Perhaps The Bali Tourism Board should get off its fat backside and look into issues like these. Printing pretty-looking media like "Hello Bali Magazine" is nowhere near enough.
And while they're at it, maybe they could remove all the retired Legong-dancers flogging "free-hold" properties in Bali upon arrival at the airport.
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Re: Money changer - My tips & his tricks
Yes Mmmarkit, you see it wrong... :D It's always handy to have a bit of cash in the pockets. In case you're the most stupid chicken in Asia. Sometimes you need a plan C & D. E & F. But then, having a plan D & F makes you a little less stupid chicken...If changing money is a "worst (case) scenario" then you've planned for it by bringing the cash in the first place or do I see that wrong?
In which case you've planned for the worst case scenario so you could just as easily and much more safely have planned for it by depositing your dosh on the credit card???
As to the last part of your comment, well a picture speaks a 1000 words there Miso lol :lol:
Haha..you need visuals? Haha...you just wait and see...hahaha...
Well..he didn't know he was a porter, he only saw a man in uniform, and that's quite intimidating when you don't know the grey rules of a country you're not familiar with.
I don't think you can blame the man, it is a shame he was put in this situation. And like you said: there is this responsability of the airport authority...
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And the whole question is: are we really supposed to shave the planet...?
Re: Money changer - My tips & his tricks
Johnny Cool, I loved the comment about retired legong dancers, had me laughing for ages :D :D :D
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