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Offline HappyMonday

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« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2007, 13:33:47 PM »
Hi Sleuth. Did not read your original post on this or we may have not had this in the first place. Doll's advice is best - if you want to change money and not have a scam of this type pulled on you - always change money in £100 quantities whereupon they wont do this.  However, Im sure that this has happened to hundreds of people in Hisaronu alone this Summer.



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« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2007, 17:18:40 PM »
...and a percentage of them may never return because of it...great work again :(

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« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2007, 08:20:33 AM »
This place was reported on another forum quite a while ago and people were warned not to go there.

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« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2007, 09:31:53 AM »
yep, that was me again who reported it elsewhere  last May ... was hoping lots would notice  the  posting

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« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2007, 16:21:31 PM »
a few years ago one of my daughters friends got charged 25% for the pleasure of exchanging her holiday travellers cheques at a well known fethiye exchange office,i questioned them about it and they refused to pay up. i was so annoyed i stood out side thier shop telling potential customers they were a bunch of  robbing b... and redirected them to another place. funnily enough after about five minutes of this action they came out and gave me a full refund.

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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2007, 14:32:46 PM »
Just an aside, but on a similar theme....
Make sure that all of the TL notes you get are of good quality - ie not ripped.  Shops will not take ripped notes and neither will the banks.
There is a bank in Fethiye that will replace bad notes, but I can't remember it's name.

Obviously the same is true when you are given change.

Glen

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« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2007, 17:50:26 PM »
Ziraat bank will change torn notes for you.It is just a bit further on than Gima/carrefour.

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« Reply #17 on: November 26, 2007, 08:44:01 AM »
The guy in the clothes store,across the road from Carrefour, down on the left is also into the exchange conning trick.We had friends staying with us who went in there.He tells you one exchange and trys to give you less. It seems you have to watch all the exchange places.

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« Reply #18 on: November 26, 2007, 10:20:58 AM »
Is'nt this just one another big let down for tourism in Turkey,always ask for the rate, and always ask if there is commission, if there is then leave it and go elsewhere, If you are going on holiday sit for a while at home until you have it off to a T then there wont be any confusion when you do come to change your money.:P

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« Reply #19 on: November 26, 2007, 19:28:19 PM »
I think it happened to me.
Unfortunately I could not work out if it had or not as I had an excellent bottle of wine before hand.

So tip for the day "Change money when sober :-\"

Second tip for the day don't bore hubby to death trying to work out
"if you have been done"





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