Nearly Short Changed by Money Changer
Jul 13th, 2010 by Steven
Recently I had a shocking eye-opening experience when I went to change money at one of the money changers in the Mid Valley Megamall. I was attended to by a female employee. The employee had to place the notes into the machine a few time to recount. I sensed it had difficulty detecting a couple of the currency notes. But I couldn’t tell what the problem was. While the LED display was placed on top of the counter, the currency-counting machine was placed as such that customers couldn’t see what was put into it.
Normally, I don’t do a physical count of the notes after the machine shows the correct number of notes. On this occasion, gut feeling told me to do so. And about half way through the counting 100-denomination notes, there were 2 pieces of smaller size 50-denomination notes! I knocked on the glass pane to show the employee and handed the entire bundle to her. She didn’t say anything but quickly replaced the notes. It occurred to me that she knew what had happened. I didn’t make a scene nor insist for an explanation.
If I had left the counter without counting the bundle of currency notes, I would have been short-changed. So, folks do be wary of unscrupulous money-changers.