Ecuador: Using 100 USD bill “Mission Impossible”

Posted on October 9, 2013 • Filed under: Ecuador, TRAVEL

LAHORA.COM.EC REPORTED Using one of these bills ($100) in Quito, however, is something that many people prefer to avoid, not the possible falsification, but by the difficulties they have to change. Not even major banks accept paper money of that designation. “We changed only if you have an account checking or savings account,” confirmed a cashier’s Banco Pichincha. In the Bank of Guayaquil and the Produbanco the response was unequivocal: “We can not change what we are forbidden”.
Change raked
The welcoming cashiers various financial institutions indicated that exchange houses, which abound on Avenida Amazonas, do change these roles, but in response Casa Mil changes again be blunt: “No, do not change $ 100 bills” . The same happened in Vaz Corp, another exchange house. One of the security agents on this site, however, that street money changers do accept a ‘Benjamin’. Indeed, two of them offered to change one of these tickets, but said they would return for a commission dollar. “It’s always difficult to find change. Traders typically pouting and say they do not have change. I think it gives them a little scary to be false. All this means that when I go to change only ask $ 20 bills, which are much easier to move, “said Lourdes Pazmiño a 47 year old Quito. Read Article

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