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'''"Quick change"''' is a form of the [[Short Con]] in which the [[Hustler]] confuses a cashier into giving more change than they should. The most lucrative quick change technique is the "progressive", in which smaller denomination bills are thrust back at the cashier for consolidation into a higher denomination. "Here, give me a five for these ones." (then, while holding the five and the ones...) "Oh, wait. Go ahead and give me a 10. Let me see... one, two, three, four and five is .. yeah, a 10. Thanks."
If you were paying attention, that was five dollars becoming 10. A quick change artist can keep that rolling until he ends up walking away with a $100 bill.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* Harry the Hat pulls this on Coach on ''[[Cheers]]'', while talking to [[
* Done with a twist in ''[[CSI]]'' - {{spoiler|Hypnosis is used, and the teller ends up making change for a $20 -- using $50s}}.
* Done every which way in ''[[Hustle]]''; whenever they pay for their drinks the barman is going to be left with less money than he started with. And he knows this, and ''still'' can't work out how it happens.
** ''[[The Real Hustle]]'' demonstrates how to make it work in real life, usually on store cashiers, and how ''not'' to fall for it.
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** A friend of [[Penn & Teller]] [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=10MJHKIflAU shows you how it's done].
** Banks have avoiding this trope as part of their teller training. If [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Teller tries this on a teller]], all bets are off.
** The ten for a five variant
*** But aren't all the bills different colors?
**** Blue and purple aren't that different. Nowadays, though, it's difficult, in that the images on the $5 are in landscape orientation while the images on the $10 have been in portrait orientation since early 2019. It may go back into vogue once the $5 gets portrait images, though.
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