He's a very clever man. He even gave me a calculator to check I was happy with my money. Trouble is, he kept talking and telling me what to put into it, and I just got confused and went along with his "two point thirty ten" (2.310) instead of the 2.39 being offered elsewhere at the time. He makes it sound like he's giving you a fantastic rate - better than anywhere else! Times that by the three or four hundred quid that we changed - we were well and truly done! And if I remember rightly, he even had the nerve to ask me for the odd few lira to "round up".
The way he works is like this:
He offers you 2.310 (two thirty ten as he says) x £300 = 693 lira
2.39 (rate at the time everywhere else) x £300 = 717 lira
(immediately done out of 24 lira)
Or for £400 - 2.310 x £400 = 924 lira
2.39 (correct rate at the time) x £400 = 956 lira
(thus doing us out of 32 lira)
Avoid him like the plague, unless you've got money to throw away!!
