No need to take much cash, just your credit card when you travel. Right, that's the theory. Ted visits the bank and finds his daily limit is dropping like a stone with the Canadian dollar. He keeps punching in smaller amounts until it spits out some US dollars, which is the currency here in Cambodia mostly. It's 4000 real to a dollar so hard doing it in that, but OK in the market and small booths.
Since we need more than that, he returns next day to 2 bank ATMs where it is soundly refused. I try my bank card and it won't work at all! Maybe I was supposed to do something else before I left. My credit card is sure working well....
Starting to panic, we try to find a place to make an international call to his bank without sucess. Our hotel is not set up, the local place says it's not possibe, we wondeer what's going on? Is North America cut off??
Eventually Savuth lets us use his cell to contact CIBC. Ted is on the phone twice, trying to reason with these guys. He gives them every piece of info he can think of regarding our considerable deposit with these clowns, and is getting more and more frustrated all the time!! Eventually telling them the other signatory on the account is me and my birth date gets their attention. He sets a new password and they double his daily limit. Oh joy, we can eat again, and pay our wonderful guide!
The probem may also have been the time lag, posting time of deposits, etc. that put them both on the same day according to the NA banking system. Who knows!!
Since we need more than that, he returns next day to 2 bank ATMs where it is soundly refused. I try my bank card and it won't work at all! Maybe I was supposed to do something else before I left. My credit card is sure working well....
Starting to panic, we try to find a place to make an international call to his bank without sucess. Our hotel is not set up, the local place says it's not possibe, we wondeer what's going on? Is North America cut off??
Eventually Savuth lets us use his cell to contact CIBC. Ted is on the phone twice, trying to reason with these guys. He gives them every piece of info he can think of regarding our considerable deposit with these clowns, and is getting more and more frustrated all the time!! Eventually telling them the other signatory on the account is me and my birth date gets their attention. He sets a new password and they double his daily limit. Oh joy, we can eat again, and pay our wonderful guide!
The probem may also have been the time lag, posting time of deposits, etc. that put them both on the same day according to the NA banking system. Who knows!!
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