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06-04-13 08:11 #1025
Posts: 416Damnit!
Have to pay my rent today (6 months) so had no choice but to change yesterday. I'd called late on Friday and been quoted 8.7, but it had dropped again by midday yesterday and I got 8.56 (changing USD3000). I checked a couple of places on Florida on the way and was offered 8.3/8.4. The old Western Union place at Lavalle / Florida offered 8.5.
Really shouldn't complain, but it smarts a bit to be 4,500 pesos down from the peak of a couple of weeks ago!
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05-30-13 16:24 #1024
Posts: 2556
Venues: 398Greetings Everyone,
Today at approximately 1 pm I exchanged $1,000 USD for pesos at $8.70.
Just before I left to exchange my cash, the popular local exchange rate websites were reporting the following Blue Dollar exchange rates:
La Nacion = $8.78 venta
Ambito.com = $8.89 venta
DolarPeso.com = $8.87 venta
DolarBlue.net = $8.87 venta
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Average Rate = $8.85
Rate Actually Received = $8.70
Discount from Average Rate = -1.70% (x .983)
You're welcome.
Jackson
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05-24-13 05:37 #1023
Posts: 754Originally Posted by Tres3 [View Original Post]
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05-22-13 10:45 #1022
Posts: 577Colonia, Uruguay
I went to Colonia yesterday (Tuesday) to get dollars from an ATM machine. There are two REDS (Networks), REDBROU and BANRED. I found three banks on the main street of Colonia (the same street as city hall). Two banks use BANRED for their ATMs. They are BBVA and Banco Comercial. The bank using REDBROU is Banco de La Nacion.
Regardless of the network that you use, there is a $1000.00 per day limit on withdrawals using FOREIGN ATM cards. BANRED has a $300.00 per transaction limit and a $6.00 per transaction ATM fee. Unless you use an ATM card that is fee less or rebates the fees, the fees add up pretty fast. I use a Schwab card, so I do not care about the fees. I got all of my dollars at BBVA, as they had the shortest line. Banco Comercial had a very long line, but also had a nice Ice Cream shop next door.
REDBROU appears to not have the $300.00 per transaction limit, but the ATM machine was not working. I went twice, about two hours apart and got the same "Bajo Mantainamiento" message.
Colonia is a nice, small town, but if you have a good source of "blue" currency, Argentina, is cheaper. The ferry, with taxes and fees cost $354 pesos, plus the taxi to and from the ferry terminal.
Tres3.
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05-22-13 00:01 #1021
Posts: 911Originally Posted by TejanoLibre [View Original Post]
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05-21-13 23:39 #1020
Posts: 313Dalman
Originally Posted by TejanoLibre [View Original Post]
Don be.
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05-21-13 23:17 #1019
Posts: 3040Xoom is at 8.10
Originally Posted by Sleeper [View Original Post]
Is it still a good idea to stuff your mattresses?
Keep the green?
TL.
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05-20-13 14:38 #1018
Posts: 19Originally Posted by AllIWantIsLove [View Original Post]
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05-20-13 02:55 #1017
Posts: 746How about the guys who operate out in the open?
How about these guys who operate out in the open (like Scalabrini Ortiz why Cerviño)? Are they being hassled? (Let me guess. The answer is that you have a choice. You can pay the bribes or you can pay the fines. Right?
Bob.
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05-19-13 11:17 #1016
Posts: 313Wonderful
Originally Posted by MataHari [View Original Post]
Get rid of the free market, state control over all.
Don B.
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05-19-13 04:53 #1015
Posts: 106Originally Posted by SilverStar [View Original Post]
This is just an illustration of the pressure the government is putting on the market.
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05-18-13 22:53 #1014
Posts: 329Originally Posted by MataHari [View Original Post]
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05-18-13 00:17 #1013
Posts: 106Originally Posted by TejanoLibre [View Original Post]
Thanks for the café and the interesting informations, Tomaso!
PS : meanwhile take care with dollar calls in the microcentro, there are some police officers in disguise in the lot. Only trade with verified sources. My home delivery guy got caught yesterday and lost a serious bunch of dollars. The sneaky pressure should last for two weeks in order to discourage speculation and control the bubble.
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05-17-13 21:35 #1012
Posts: 3040$8.70 Today!
Originally Posted by DaddyRulz [View Original Post]
Told me the peso is freaking out!
You did well.
10 to 1 yesterday was awful unless he's thinking long.
Very Long!
Realize that Chicas that were 940 yesterday are not going to be 870 now . And worse !
TL.
Carlos Pellegrini 787.
Turismo Dalman.
Drop Tejano Libre's name for best rate.
I hope! I Think?
It's close enough and easy to find but it's closed on Sat. And Sun. And closes at 5:30 pm on the other days.
FAKE PESO ALLERT :
A counterfeit ring was busted in BA today with 172k in fake bills , new and old hundreds .
1 counterfeiter and 3 buyers that bought them for .23 and sold them on the "Street" for ?
23 peso hundreds.
TL
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05-17-13 20:51 #1011
Posts: 1Originally Posted by DaddyRulz [View Original Post]
10.6 for 10 EUR.
I don't pretend to understand...