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DENNIS
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Seems like the banks wont deal with most people if they dont have an account with them.
Customer service is dying or dead on both sides of the border.
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Bajalover
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In Santa Ana, Pizza Patron started accepting Pesos. Great !!!!!!!! Only to find locals are protesting this concept of Pizza Patron's. Really stupid
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Everyone traveling abroad expects them to accept dollars, why not pesos here  .
Oh well  .
Sometimes you really do question; why you are and where you are.
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vgabndo
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Dennis:
That would be here in the states. If there IS a service charge, it is inconsequential compared to what you lose at a casa de cambio.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
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Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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Capt. George
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the banks on Cape Cod would not accept canadian change, dollars yeah, change, nada.
vgabndo B Of A they hooked up with Bancomer?? Heard they're the best way to wire funds (etc) to Mexico..
Any more info on this??
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longlegsinlapaz
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How is this any different than the border states accepting Canadian $$$??? At least
they USED to, not sure about now since I left Washington in 1997. Paper & coins were both legal tender. In my personal experience, Mexican banks
deal ONLY in paper USD, they will not accept any US coins, regardless of value. Just a guess on my part, but I'd think that "illegal immigrants"
would be getting paid in USD! I'd view this more as a convenience for "day-trippers" more than anything else!
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DENNIS
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vgabndo ----
Thanks for the info. Like I mentioned, I dont use the Cambios either. I stick with the ATM. The Cambios. from my general observation, seem to be
around 20 centavos per dollar less than the bank rate. It wasn't that long ago that our choices were not so abundant.
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Don Alley
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Most places in Montana accept Canadian paper money; you take it to the bank and deposit it with everything else. But banks do not accept Canadian
coins, nor do stores but they pop up from time to time and everyone wants to dump them off on someone else. If you are alert, you try to make sure you
don't get a Canadian quarter with your change.
In Mexico, banks do not accept US coins, so they have limited value here. I sure wish visitors wouldn't give US coins as tips and gifts to kids. They
have to take them to local Americans and ask for an exchange, they cannot spend them. I don't know if the Cambios take coin or not.
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FARASHA
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International regulation it seems - NO COINS taken for exchange in Banks!Find this problem everywhere. And as a frequent traveller, I have been asked
MANY times, from locals, to change coins. Travel usually home with a heavy purse, for that reason. >f<
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burro bob
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I cant say if the banks will accept US coins here in San Felipe, but all the merchants I deal with do. The only time I use US money here in Mexico is
when I get I get it back as change. It seems to be accepted readily, coins as well as dollars.
About ten years ago I remember a group of Italians, that had just arrived, all they had were a few US dollars and a lot of Lira. No one had ever seen
anything like it. Neither the banks, nor the merchants would take the Italian money. One of them ended up returning to the US on the bus to get all
their Lira changed into dollars, so they could then be changed into pesos.
Anywhere along the border I would expect any good merchant to accept both pesos and dollars. And if Mexico had a border with Italy I would expect them
to accept lira also.
Does anyone know If they accept any Guatamalan money on Mexico's southern border? Also are any of you Canadians able to use your Canadian dollars at
any merchants/banks?
burro bob
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vgabndo
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Capt. George...I don't have your answer. Try 800-346-7693.
Good luck.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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