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Genre: Travel & Events
Date of upload: Dec 26, 2023 ^^
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I am half moroccan living in europe, when i was 15 years old visiting my fathers home country morocco he sent me to the store to buy some food/drinks. When i came back to the car my father checked the change and became furious since i had been scammed. My father went back to the store and told them off very angry and said that βis this how you treat people visiting the country, you think this is a good image of us ?!β
The son of the owner apologized and we got the correct change back. I love Morocco and will always visit but it is unfortunate that some people still acts this way.
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As a Moroccan, it makes my blood boil when I see these scammers intimidating tourists into paying crazy prices! I would like to see the Moroccan authorities act to impose heavy fines on all these crooks who give a bad image to my country! Edit Kurt why in hell are you folowing strangers by now you should know better?
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As a Moroccan fan of yours for over a year, I appreciate your videos and exploring my country this time. The snake charmers were greedy, and you figured that out by yourself, the amount of money you gave them was more than enough. Even us Moroccans we avoid them, they'd say give whatever you want, then they'd ask for more. A tip of advice, you should have spare change with you in coins, so they won't be greedy when they see cash. As for the Jellaba price, it was reasonable. Try to bargain wherever you go, that's the culture. They're not intimidating as much as being pushy. Also, after you bargain, if they don't succumb to your offer, you can just leave the store, and they'll call you back. Never ride a bike for whatever reason man, don't expect generosity in a touristy place. You won't expect any Moroccan generousity whatsoever, that guy is a fucking jerk.
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Those two incense scammers are really disgusting. The way they tried to convince him to pay an absurd price is just mind blowing. Iβam a moroccan and when i go to this place i try as much as possible to avoid any interraction with vendors there as they think iβam a tourist and try to charge me more. You paid a lot for what you got kurt even for the snakes charmers
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16:00 as morocan we dont believe on this at all, this is haram on our religion, and they have just scam you, that's it
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a TIP for you Kurt, as a Moroccan who lives in Marrakech.
For the snakes and Monkeys thing, 10 Dh, 20 Dh is enough. If you wanna give them more, 50 DH is way more than enough. They'll keep asking you to give more no matter how much you give them. They just aim at taking the maximum. So just give them 20Dh and say : Lah'yesser or Lah'yaawen. and go away.
Same goes for the other Shows in the Jama'a Lefna Place. If you wanna see more Shows, just have change with you. 10Dhs, 5 Dhs. For the Shows in the evening, there is usually a "people circle" around the performers, and when they finish the show they'll go around collecting whatever people give them, so giving them 5dh 10 Dhs 20Dh, it's enough.
Be more aware of the people who actually give you a service (food, tattoo, something you consume) If you want anything, ask for the price before hand, because if you take the service first, they might ask for an absurd price, and no matter how much you haggle you'd still waste a lot. So haggle the price first (of course if they already have price tags you shouldn't haggle, like Restaurant Menus for example.)
Many people for example go get the Henna tattoo in Jama'a Lefna, and they don't ask for the price first, so they end up paying 500DHs for a simple flower tattoo in only one hand. When they could pay 100DHs for both hands (for simple tattoos, not complicated ones)
in traditional markets, always haggle. That's just the way it is.
You might also encounter a straight up scam in some restaurants that sell sea food (This one even Moroccans fall for it sometimes) so in traditional sea food restaurants, they have plates by size. So you might order a 50 DH plate, and they'll bring you with it some langoustine or some expensive fish, and when you go to pay, They'll tell you 50Dh for the dish you ordered and 100DH for the expensive fish. They are creative with how they'll upsale the extra dish so be careful. They might even just give you the expensive dish without saying anything. So make sure they give you what you ordered only. (the side dishes like the sauce and olives etc.. are not a scam though, they just come with your order)
Of course most restaurants don't do this scam, but some of them do, so just keep it in mind.
I hope you have a nice visit. And try visiting Dakhla city, it has some insane beaches.
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@zDryd
4 months ago
Love the no bullshit attitude, takes a confident man to set people in their place all across the world no matter what
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