Walley: The easiest way to hedge the Arg peso is to
Buy peso-based gold contracts from the bolsa in rosario. I have had investor hedge in that manner and I am tempted to buy such contracts myself now, but the kirshners scare the shit out of me. They could do anything during the next two years--patrimonia!
Best of luck--I would not use paypal from any large transaction nor give them access to a bank account that might have significant funds pass thru. Maybe ebay has cleaned up paypal or maybe they have not. It is not a bank as jackson points out.
Paypal for ebay w / a credit card works well
Because of the credit card protections. I still buy many types of items on ebay:
Colgnes, certain name brand shirts and pants that I know fit well, books, toner, etc. I don't live in NYC where you can buy anything cheaper if you know where to look.
My negative comments were about my experiences yaers ago--pre-ebay--when paypal played with my bank account and it was very time consuming to get them to fix their mistakes.
I thought that we were discussing used paypal to transfer large sums of money internationally. I would not trust paypal--but I donj't have real hands on experience. This is the rub. The old traditional casa de cambio system is not fuctioning now they way it had traditionally worked for many years in argentina.
I have not been ina situation over the last two yaers where I needed to make any such transfers--over us$10,000. I don't know what smart portenos are doing today.
Consult with you accountant in BA and don't post it here. I would bet money that all sorts of people read this website who you would not want knowing your private business.