REMEMBER......if you are in a hurry to compute the exchange in your head.............just round up to 100 J to 1 US Dollar........
you will only LOOSE .16 cents for every hundred you would have to spend 600 Jamaican to lose a buck.........Tip Money ?
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You have it backwards - if you're paying in USD, that would be rounding DOWN. If you owe somebody $100JA, you owe them $1.15US. If you owe somebody $500JA and give him a $5US bill, you have short-changed him $.75US, not given him a tip.Originally Posted by Rambo
Seems odd to me, but I see this happen all the time, and the Jamaicans may be unhappy but accept it.
I don't find it difficult at all to stop at the bank or a cambio, change money - INCLUDING asking for small bills - and then just pay in Jamaican.
Last edited by wrtiii; 02-28-2012 at 03:11 PM.
But if Mr Rambo was paying in Jamaican currency, and the prices he was being quoted to him were in US currency.
EG: 10 US was the price and he paid 1000 JMD He would not be short changing.
It all depends how you look at it.
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