I'd love to see it
Exchange rate cons are nothing more than pants to me. Let me explain. I've never used the great dress shop con man but I know he's good at what he does - i.e. conning people. The 2.3TEN con is inspired, although it doesn't work on everyone and hopefully even more so since we highlighted it here on the forum. Alternative con 2 is to baffle and bamboozle. This is where I think it is pants...
In around 2004 it may come as a shock to newcomers to Turkey but people will back me up when I say that the T shirts and other clothes used to be cheap and if you knew where to go, really good quality. Now I needed boxer shorts and I found some really top quality ones on one Sunday market stall. I still have a few pairs left today, six years on - a little threadbare perhaps but still very good. They were something like 7 pairs for 16 lira (16 million actually but I digress). I now know they were 9 pairs and 16 lira for a reason. 10 pairs for 20 lira would make things too easy to work out. I didn't have 16 lira, I had 20 and what do you know, he hasn't got 4 lira for my change. So he asks for 5 lira (more) and one pair of boxers back and he'll give me 6 pairs of socks. This is the only way we can trade money for the boxer shorts I want.
Most of the numbers above are made up due to fading memory but the situation is about right. To this day I have no idea whether I got a better deal in the end than the advertised one or whether I was totally ripped off - I was absolutely bamboozled! And that's the case with the dress shop exchange conman - he won't have the right amount, he'll ask you for X pounds, then give you some sterling back as part of balancing up the deal and the whole show is to muddy the water so much that you have no clue what you should be getting for your pounds sterling.
