money rates

[danap]

thanks rob , i bought some ja at my bank a couple of months ago , 120j was the rate i got here, 7 more sleeps , get to negril the 19th cant wait 40s and raining here

[rtitle]

I exchange at a suoermarket ("Mr Chin's" as Jamaicans call it) because it's quick and efficient. Usually I get 125 but it seems to fluctuate.

[danap]

I exchange at a suoermarket ("Mr Chin's" as Jamaicans call it) because it's quick and efficient. Usually I get 125 but it seems to fluctuate.

i hear ya rtitle but i am there for two months i am jest trying to cut my trips to the cambio, i do the same thing as you to , i was wondering if i got riped off getting from my bank in town,, always seems the rate goes down every time i exchange money[lol] i will still have to change money there, thanks for the mr chin tip,,,,

[rtitle]

Ya I don't know if the supermarkets in Negril do it. I go to Lulufa supermarket in Sav where a Chinese woman sits in a booth right at the entrance way up there overlooking the store. She knows me so I don't even have to say anything. I just hand US dollars up to her in the booth and she hands me back JMD. I joked to someone I am exchanging money with God because of the way I am handing it up to someone above. Unlike the ******* money changers in front of the supermarket in Negril, she always hands me the right amount in the appropriate denominations (e.g. if a large amount, she'll give back 5000J bills). Those Negril guys always try to short-change you and one of their tricks is to hand back a large (but short of the right amount) stack of small bills that take time to count figuring the customer won't bother to count it. And if you do, they'll want to count it themselves, and then it turns into an argument with the same stack of bills being counted a re-counted with both sides claiming a different count. I don't have time for that crap. I don't use banks/cambios because (I think) they require a passport and I'm not generally carrying around my passport as I go about my day doing errands.