In Reply to: money changer kuta. posted by Godday on Wednesday, 12. January 2005 at 22:11 Bali Time:
Hi I agree with Godday. If you come across money changers offering a very high exchange rate, be careful. I only had one bad experience where the money changer gave me all 20,000 notes. He checked them infront of me, double checked and triple checked them. He then asked me for about 15,000 change, at that point some money had disappeared without my partner or myself noticing. When we returned to the Hotel I said to my partner that it seemed very unuual to get such a high rate without comission from the changer. I checked the money again and we were out by $125AU. I reported it to hotel security, they drove me back to the money changer, spoke in indonesian (as they would being in Bali :)... and without question he gave the money back.