The deal is that they have two blokes behind the counter, they recount the money into piles again and again, just after you count it, if you count it three times, they will count if four. With a sleight of the hand five out of every ten notes disappear, easy not to notice when you are dealing with 60 20 000r notes!

Then at the end there is the dodgy coin trick to take your mind off what you have received.

We got done for 400 000 and realised later that day. We went back two days later to change more and see if we could pick up how they were cheating….even with both of us watching intently and me secretly filming on my phone it’s hard to see the quick movements. We stepped just away from the counter and recounted our money, 400 000 short again! amazingly the same amount as the previous exchange….with a quick threat to call the police and a warning to give us what was due, we recouped all of our rupiah from that exchange and thanks to the healthy exchange rate offered recouped some of our loss from the previous day.

Sneaky bastards!

My husband is now intent on visiting this man on every trip to Bali…if you can pick him up on it, he is the best deal for a money exchange in Bali!

If everyone took this approach to dodgy money changers and checked and rechecked their cash, we could put the sneaky shits out of business!