I almost accidentally increased my trip expenses by 10 times. But somehow it worked out 😅

In Oman, they use rials. The exchange rate is $2.6 per unit. It's the third most expensive currency in the world. And instead of dividing by 100 like most currencies, it divides by 1000 baisa. So prices are shown with three decimal places.

The problem is that Serbian banks completely didn't expect this twist. So I went and bought water for 0.150 OMR. Paid with my card. And I get a push notification saying 1.50 OMR was charged. Which is like 10 times more. The amount here is relatively harmless, but the same thing happened when I paid for the hotel. One that I definitely wasn't planning on paying almost a thousand bucks for per night. Except the notification cheerfully reported exactly that amount being charged.

The fun part is that the notifications come instantly. But the actual transactions show up in the online banking interface a day later (or even later). And support is completely unavailable. I had to worry a bit about my account. But in the end, everything was charged correctly. Not 10x.

PS. The money itself is beautiful. And it's cool that the bills show 1/2. And there's even 1/4.