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08 Jul 2007 Sun 12:02 am |
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what kind of money can tourists use in Turkey? I mean, which one is the best.
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08 Jul 2007 Sun 12:09 am |
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ofcourse Turkish Lira (YTL) 
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08 Jul 2007 Sun 03:50 am |
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If you don't want to get ripped off, you have to use YTL. In most places though you can only use YTL.
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08 Jul 2007 Sun 09:42 pm |
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many tourist use € and $ and ytl together
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 11:55 am |
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Quoting summi: many tourist use € and $ and ytl together |
When you pay with dollars or euros, prices will almost always be rounded off upwards.
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 01:13 pm |
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Quoting Elisa: Quoting summi: many tourist use € and $ and ytl together |
When you pay with dollars or euros, prices will almost always be rounded off upwards. |
Exactly! You also have no idea what exchange rate they are using!
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 01:22 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting Elisa: Quoting summi: many tourist use € and $ and ytl together |
When you pay with dollars or euros, prices will almost always be rounded off upwards. |
Exactly! You also have no idea what exchange rate they are using! |
I also used sterling, and I asked for the calculator and worked out my exchange rate at the best one I had seen in the town! Which incidentally was better than the one I had got in the UK.
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 01:24 pm |
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Quoting libralady: I also used sterling, and I asked for the calculator and worked out my exchange rate at the best one I had seen in the town! Which incidentally was better than the one I had got in the UK. |
Aha! Canny lady 
However, I do like to use local currency wherever I travel. It seems a bit arrogant to expect everyone to accept sterling, dollars or euros.
European visitors to the UK are the same. They find it strange that its hard to use Euros, but ITS NOT OUR CURRENCY! 
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 03:42 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x:
However, I do like to use local currency wherever I travel. It seems a bit arrogant to expect everyone to accept sterling, dollars or euros.
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I always take enough ytl to see me though the first day and then i exchange sterling there because you nomally get a better rate.Also where i go the shopkeepers like you to pay in pound sterling because they themselves get a better rate at the bank.
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:32 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting libralady: I also used sterling, and I asked for the calculator and worked out my exchange rate at the best one I had seen in the town! Which incidentally was better than the one I had got in the UK. |
Aha! Canny lady
However, I do like to use local currency wherever I travel. It seems a bit arrogant to expect everyone to accept sterling, dollars or euros.
European visitors to the UK are the same. They find it strange that its hard to use Euros, but ITS NOT OUR CURRENCY! |
I used sterling to pay for my paragliding because they asked for it, not because I wanted to!!!!! Like that, they can exchange it whenever the rate is good. I use YTL the rest of the time - but I can guarantee that they LOVE sterling in the resorts!!!!!!
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:35 pm |
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maybe nationalism not to much meaningfull about money or language,but have to be when needed i think....so thats kindly to use sterlin in Uk and to use YTL in Turkey
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:38 pm |
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Quoting MrX67: maybe nationalism not to much meaningfull about money or language,but have to be when needed i think....so thats kindly to use sterlin in Uk and to use YTL in Turkey |
Nationalism when it suits you? But....not when it gets in the way of a good profit? 
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:40 pm |
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Quoting aenigma x: Quoting MrX67: maybe nationalism not to much meaningfull about money or language,but have to be when needed i think....so thats kindly to use sterlin in Uk and to use YTL in Turkey |
Nationalism when it suits you? But....not when it gets in the way of a good profit? |
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:41 pm |
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Quoting MrX67: maybe nationalism not to much meaningfull about money or language,but have to be when needed i think....so thats kindly to use sterlin in Uk and to use YTL in Turkey |
I think it is more a case of materialism! or lets see if we can escape from paying so much tax, by getting as much sterling cash as we can...........
When you offer to pay in YTL and they say, have you got sterling? Who am I to reason why? I just wanted to goparagliding
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:44 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Quoting MrX67: maybe nationalism not to much meaningfull about money or language,but have to be when needed i think....so thats kindly to use sterlin in Uk and to use YTL in Turkey |
I think it is more a case of materialism! or lets see if we can escape from paying so much tax, by getting as much sterling cash as we can...........
When you offer to pay in YTL and they say, have you got sterling? Who am I to reason why? I just wanted to goparagliding |
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:45 pm |
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I remember the first time we went to Turkey in 1988 £1 sterling was worth just over 2000 old lira the next year 4000 and so on until it reached 3 million a few years ago. Since then it has been fairly stable.
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:47 pm |
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may be i'm thinking wrong not to sure,but i think to use money of country which you went a way to show ur respect...
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:49 pm |
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Quoting MrX67: may be i'm thinking wrong not to sure,but i think to use money of country which you went a way to show ur respect... |
I agree, I always use the currency of the country - but on this occasion I was ASKED for sterling! Not my fault or a lack of respect on my part!!!!
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 05:52 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Quoting MrX67: may be i'm thinking wrong not to sure,but i think to use money of country which you went a way to show ur respect... |
I agree, I always use the currency of the country - but on this occasion I was ASKED for sterling! Not my fault or a lack of respect on my part!!!! |
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09 Jul 2007 Mon 06:07 pm |
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there was a big inflation in our wonderfull country be4,but its ok since a few years,so no need any fear about keeping YTL...
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 12:17 am |
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So, YTL is the best right?
But what about prices? Is Turkey cheap place? I live in North-Europe and life is quite expensive here.
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 12:35 am |
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Quoting summi: So, YTL is the best right?
But what about prices? Is Turkey cheap place? I live in North-Europe and life is quite expensive here. |
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 12:48 am |
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somethings can be very cheap for someone while other one struggling to get it during of her/his life,so cheap&expensive so relative terms as on the good&bad
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 08:22 am |
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Quoting MrX67: there was a big inflation in our wonderfull country be4,but its ok since a few years,so no need any fear about keeping YTL... |
Edited (10/12/2009) by si++
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 01:12 pm |
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I bought here 512mb mp3 Philips player and its was about 115 YTL.
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 01:12 pm |
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Quoting summi: So, YTL is the best right?
But what about prices? Is Turkey cheap place? I live in North-Europe and life is quite expensive here. |
Compared to our prices in Europe, UK, France, Germany, Holland etc etc Turkey is cheaper but I would not say cheap. We noticed that eating out is cheaper but some of the gifts etc are not that much different.
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10 Jul 2007 Tue 11:39 pm |
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But what about chlotes? I cant buy here Puma, Nike and so long not original things, but is it possible in Turkey?
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11 Jul 2007 Wed 12:52 am |
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Quoting summi: But what about chlotes? I cant buy here Puma, Nike and so long not original things, but is it possible in Turkey? |
No, they have the same prices. They're expensive.
Yet, you can find perfect copies of these marks, just you have to know where to find them or search yourself a bit
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11 Jul 2007 Wed 12:54 am |
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Quoting mltm: Yet, you can find perfect copies of these marks, just you have to know where to find them or search yourself a bit |
Turkish copies are fantastic and much better quality than anywhere else. Unfortunately I don't like to dress like a 'chav', but if you are into "designer" sports clothes and tshirts, they are great value!
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11 Jul 2007 Wed 11:40 pm |
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turkish liras...euro..or usd..
but u can exchange a lot of money type ın here..
dont worry about this topic..
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12 Jul 2007 Thu 12:01 am |
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Quoting turqce: dont worry about this topic.. |
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12 Jul 2007 Thu 12:46 am |
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well.. i just wanna be sure..
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12 Jul 2007 Thu 01:13 am |
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Quoting summi: well.. i just wanna be sure.. |
Well, it seemed a fairly good topic but....Turqce says we should not worry about this topic so we should forget it
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12 Jul 2007 Thu 02:00 am |
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I dunno... do we?
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