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Larry, one thing I'm going to generalize here is that most dominicans are bad, and I mean terrible "entrepreneurs". I'm not going to explain here why I think that, but I'll tell you this: Your problem is very common nationwide and it can have two reasonsn. The fact is that here in DR, people at shops and mostly at any kind of business are very concerned about giving away their change just to the first people that shows asking for it, because they have the appreciation that if they don't have change they wont be able to please their custommers (what a contradiction!). In your specific case, and I'm sorry I have to say this, they can do this just because they want you to say to them "well, don't have change? never mind, keep the change as a tip" or something, because yes, you are gringo and yes, we tend to assume that you people swim in money. Again all this is very common here.