Originally Posted by
stewardo
I have only once experienced one retailer (in Asia) who refused to accept the local currency because they 'didn't know how to change the settings on the machine', but as I prepared to leave the store they magically remembered how to alter it.
I've had this problem with a hotel bill in China. I made a scene, and the clueless receptionists had to call the Bank of China merchant line, who STILL insisted that the bill had to be paid in EUR and not CNY.
