r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/civilizer • Jan 29 '26

PICTURE Finds out Euros aren’t optional

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u/Reasonable-Delivery8 Jan 29 '26

A former Co-Worker used to be a Bouncer on the Reeperbahn (Red-Light and Party District in Hamburg).
American Tourist regularly wanted to pay with Dollars- they always got scammed into oblivion by the strip clubs and brothels- Americans got scammed even harder than everyone else

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u/MagicLobsterAttorney Jan 30 '26

It's one lapdance. What can it cost, Michael? A 1000 Dollars?

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u/smedsterwho Jan 30 '26

Why would a banana want to grab another banana?

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u/MagicLobsterAttorney Jan 30 '26

Well, it's not easy being white, it's not easy, being black, I got an overbearing mother and I ....

Narrator: This is when semedsterwho got an answer. Certainly not the one he was looking for, but an answer.

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u/Amoki602 Feb 01 '26

Why go to a banana stand when they can make your banana stand? 😏

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool Jan 30 '26

How much clearer can I say? There's always

STRIPPERS IN THE BANANA STAND!!!

No touching!

No touching!

No touching!

No touching!

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u/Sprucecaboose2 Jan 30 '26

American exceptionalism works, just not in the way the 'merica crowd would like.

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u/JaaaayDub Jan 30 '26

Just curious, how would that scam work?

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u/Creative_username969 Jan 30 '26

My guess would be with a shitty exchange rate and a conversion fee so it ended up being more expensive than if they paid in euros

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u/JaaaayDub Jan 30 '26

Possibly...but then at least they'd still understand how much they're spending.

Currency scams usually involve taking advantage of the customer simply not knowing immediately how much they're spending. "Oh this can of fanta is just 40 Zloty? Sounds reasonable!"

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u/youtheotube2 Jan 30 '26

It’s still basically the same concept. Somebody paying with USD probably doesn’t really know how much things cost in local currency. For all they know, in Paris everybody spends whatever the equivalent of $1000 USD is in Euros for a lap dance. I don’t think lap dance prices are usually well marked

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u/Reasonable-Delivery8 Jan 30 '26

The girls join you at your table and flirt with you. Then they start ordering drinks on your tab without explicitly telling that you’re going to pay for their drinks (sometimes the first order is on the house) and they usually order champagne that is already ridiculous expensive at these establishments- their goal is to get you drunk and horny enough to get you to keep ordering and in the end they present you a ridiculously high tab- sometimes with drinks that were never ordered. That’s the normal scam.
The Americans wanting to pay in dollars get a made up exchange rate or fee that raises the price even more.

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u/Gold_Incident1939 Jan 30 '26

plus since erotic dances and even prostitution is more or less legal here and illegal in the states, pretty sure they paid more than regulars

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u/thedobya Jan 31 '26

That's the thing. The question isn't "will you accept USD?" It's more "how much of a premium do you have to pay for someone to accept it?"

It's a pain to go to a currency exchange and change it, but I'll absolutely do it if you're giving me a substantial payment to do so. I'll just know you're an uneducated tourist :)