Scunner, the point I am trying to make, obviously unsuccessfully is - that I assumed (obviously wrongly) that the change shop was, apart from the banks, the only legal way of changing currency. When the man from the shop sees us coming out of a jewellers, asks what rate we got, told us it was illegal for the jeweller to exchange money, then tells us that the exchange rate on his huge illuminated sign is for "tourists" and that we, as regular visitors could get a higher rate if we haggled, (as explained in a previous post) then yes, I consider that is a rip off for tourists and also for regular visitors like ourselves, who change currency at "illegal venues" knowingly to get a better deal then are told we can haggle at the legal ones for an even higher one!!!!! And now I am starting to sound like Jacqui.
