Originally Posted by
awayIgo
Use the ATM. It is totally unfair and wrong to expect the driver to give you commercial rate ( which is what the website above will give you) The driver will NOT get commerical rate when he changes your $$ to NIS AND he has to take HIS time to do it. BTW the rate at the moment is 3.649 . It hasn't been 3.7 for a few weeks now! ( it is going down and down and down)
If its going down ona daily basis then most likely the drivers wont take US$. Unfair
whats usually unfair is when asking if you can pay in US$ they give you a rate that is far below what it should be trying to scam you.
But what counts is if they feel the shek is going to go down against the US$ then they will gladly accept it. When it used to be apx $8 they always said yes to paying in US$ but said any where from $10-15 I gave them $8. When a couple of yrs ago (last time with nesher) it was $15 they said it was $20, the dispacther said $15. When the driver complained,I told him thats what the dispatcher told me it was, so take itup with him when you get back to BG