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Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: WpyPF ()
Date: February 25, 2014 08:48PM

I have a few thousand Mexican pesos and a few hundred Belize dollars.

Is there anywhere in Fairfax county that can give me a fair exchange rate or do I have to save these things until I return? Not in a big hurry to do either.

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Date: February 25, 2014 09:09PM

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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: JustanFYI ()
Date: February 25, 2014 09:16PM

Dulles Airport.

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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: Dulles ()
Date: February 25, 2014 09:18PM

Dulles airport. I'm not sure how reasonable their rates are though.

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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: February 25, 2014 09:23PM

Haven't done it in a while, but IAD and the place on K St in DC are ripoffs.

You say you wanted a "fair rate", did you?


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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: Greybeard ()
Date: February 25, 2014 09:52PM

Airport? Just a SWAG, no idea whether this meets your "fair exchange" rate.

Or a bank -- I've exchanged currencies at a bank. In that case I didn't care about the exchange rate.

P.S. I had to wait for the exchange to clear -- they couldn't do it on the spot, which struck me as odd.



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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: kala scarpinksi ()
Date: February 25, 2014 09:55PM

Airports usually give you shitty rates too.


I would go to your bank.

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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: abelard ()
Date: February 25, 2014 10:26PM

I used to just deposit euro and pounds in my bank account, although there were currencies they didn't like (I think they took rand under protest but refused pula). If I recall they didn't even charge a fee, although the rate was sometimes only so-so. Unless you have a big pile o' money, I'd just stop in at Dulles, screw the rate.

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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: Mt. Gox ()
Date: February 25, 2014 11:27PM

I'll trade you some Bitcoins for those pesos and Belize dollars.

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Re: Where Can I Exchange Currency Locally?
Posted by: Coinstar might work? ()
Date: February 26, 2014 12:02AM

WpyPF Wrote:
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> I have a few thousand Mexican pesos and a few
> hundred Belize dollars.
>
> Is there anywhere in Fairfax county that can give
> me a fair exchange rate or do I have to save these
> things until I return? Not in a big hurry to do
> either.


Coinstar might work?

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