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56MM#
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Pesos or Dollars?
The age old question...
Planning a trip to Bahia Asuncion. Better to pay in pesos or dollars at Pemex Stations and other businesses south of Ensenada and San Felipe?
Have recently found exchange rates favoring paying in dollars between the border and those two places.
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chuckie
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Keep it simple...use pesos
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woody with a view
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pesos. otherwise they calculate the exchange rate while you bend over and hand them the $ and the Vaseline.....
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Udo
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I agree with Woody!
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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Osprey
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What part of Mexico do you guys travel to? What's with the bend over thing? I use pesos so I don't make the seller MY BANKERS, so they won't have
the job, choice, opportunity or risk of being my messenger. Who's cheating who around here anyway? Go into business down here, then decide the answer.
Give it a rest.
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bajaguy
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Pesos always. Use an ATM at a bank or at Costco
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Bajaboy
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Pesos in Mexico
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Alm
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Very rarely they would have a good exchange rate. So - pesos is better.
Don't count on using credit/debit card either. Quite often they won't have a terminal for cards, or their terminal would reject foreign-issued credit
card.
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woody with a view
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with an exchange rate near 14-1 and you show up with dollars to fill a gas tank taking 25 gallons they will advertise 11.5-1 and that is getting
screwed because you were too lazy to buy pesos.
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Bajaboy
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Quote: Originally posted by woody with a view  | | with an exchange rate near 14-1 and you show up with dollars to fill a gas tank taking 25 gallons they will advertise 11.5-1 and that is getting
screwed because you were too lazy to buy pesos. |
Woody, if you need to buy some pesos at 14-1, I'd be happy to help you out.
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woody with a view
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I knew I could count on you! if the ATM is out of service at San Miguel next week will you deliver?
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bajabuddha
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Do you know what K-Y stands for?
.....KWIT YELLING ! 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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Bajaboy
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don't tempt me...the itch is becoming a witch....3+ weeks until relief!
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Bill Collector
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It was 15.25 at City Club in SJD today
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woody with a view
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^^^YES^^^
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Trueheart
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P E S O S !!!!!!!!!
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DENNIS
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Coin of the realm.....absolutely.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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MMc
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Woody there are a couple of ATM in El Sauzal. My favorite is by the Fish Taco stand in the north end of town. Most of the time I get them from my bank
before I go.
"Never teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and annoys the pig" - W.C.Fields
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Trueheart
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56MM#
Pesos, pay for things in pesos. Take the "banker" out of the hands of your provider. You'll run into "enough" circumstances where you will
appreciate having had pesos rather than $$$ to pay a bill. Can you use $$$? Sure you can, in most circumstances. But again, with repetition of
purchases, you'll appreciate the advice all are giving here. Use pesos, or at least be prepared to use pesos.
BTW, I think I asked a similar question to yours a decade ago. I have learned the sage advice on this is just that.
Now go enjoy! Salud!
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Von
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Woody is right! my ass still hurts from Aprils trip! lol!!!
READY SET.....................
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