Originally Posted by
William S
It had a price list where it was about 20000 yen (already ridiclious) but then started to add on 3000 yen, stating it was tax. And still they wanted all my cash aswell, including some Norwegian Krone I had on me. And then a second time the price rose to 27000 yen and they were just money, money, money. Well after that point I said stop, no more money. If I hadn't done that the total bill would have been 100 000 yen or even larger I guess which would have led to an overdraft. As I went into this scam in the first place I will just go on and bear the loss of money. Fresh money will come in soon luckily.
On the visit before in August last year I came from Korea and I thought Yen was just a little bit stronger than the Won, so I ended up by taking out 100 000 Yen at Narita airport. The thing is both the Yen and the Won are both weaker than the Norwegian Krone. That was even a bigger selftriggered "scam".
Honestly, depending on where you went and what services the offered, the pricing is not really out of line. The fact that they keep asking for more money sounds like a Chinese operated shop. Usually in Tokyo, businesses are pretty squeaky clean about this kind of thing. That being said, I would never let some one drag me off the street nor would I ever use a credit card if I didn't know the place.