gidday, just got back and i gotta comment on the mega scams at seminyak - the money changers have popped up bigtime down there like the big H strapped to an aussie mule.
the story goes my wife and i rock in to the same money changer previously used 6 months ago. different guy than before but yes he wanted the $300 not $100 and yes he gave us 20,000 notes. we knew the scam was going down so we played along, we watched for the slight of hand, he counted , we counted. we were happy , he was happy - hang on a tick, i think we must have been done. so we recounted and the sly pr**k did do the super quick Yak flick and we were 500,000 short. so we marched in there and said "what the f...." and he said sorry and gave us our money back.
we then tried for the next 40 minutes with at least 10 so called authorised money changers. we tried to scam them by asking for $300 then stop them at $100 and but they caught on to our attempted scam and said so sorry i don't have enough money.
this has tainted my view of the Yak.
RULE 1. always count your moneyon their premises
RULE 2. always get another friend/partner to count the money.
RULE 3. don't let the money leave your hand once you have counted it.
yes the kodak shops are/have always been good for me however i cannot go past the money changer 4 doors down on Bemo corner. usually has a guard with a machine gun inside - up 3 steps and always bloody cold too.