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So if Amazon pays $0 tax, and assuming they do so legally since they're not in "jail", then the system is immoral. What "system" are you referring to? The concept of democracy itself that put the tax code in place? Or just the US, hence the US citizens?

Start an online business that caters to the local population and has minimal competition?

Aloha, We'd like to make a day trip to Tigre and would love to get advice from those that have been there. 1. Which train is more worthwhile to use: the regular Mitre or the so called luxury Tren de la Costa? 2. Is there a boat that can take us back to BA in the evening? 3. While in Tigre...

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Great. I'll just text them and do a pick up since I'm in CABA.

Thank you for your advice. So it works like eBay ? And you have no problem with losing items during delivery?

I appreciate the detail in sight. We won't be making a trip back to the US until late January. I want to give that Mercado libre a try but I'm a little bit leery of losing things in the mail. How's your experience with it?

Going out on a limb to see if anyone knows where to buy a rice cooker and not have to pay an arm for one in Chinatown? I thought a lot of people here eat rice, and that a rice cooker would be a common appliance.

Not 4 pages of bantering and then someone beat me to this question. LOL. Very entertaining read. I'm just pleasantly happy that it's a hell of a lot cheaper than my last few places.

I suppose BA is still safe enough for you to still want to be here...

4 to 16 is statistically very insignificant in a metro with 15 million people.

Huh. Interesting observation. Gotta check that out next time.

Wow. WU must have had a hiccup in their system. I just checked my Paypay/Xoom rate, and it's just 61ARS. Bloomberg is at ~59.8ARS. XE is at 59.7. But hey, all the more power to you.

Thank you, OTB, for your thoughts and advice. Unfortunately, they were 2 separate transactions. I purchased the phone from Amazon and had it shipped to my daughter in the US. She, in turn, followed my instruction to used FEDEX to ship it to me. Being a business owner, I can't imagine FEDEX...

I'll assume you're just telling me to be more cautious. I agree. But making new friends and NOT putting trust in them for certain things is just not my way of going through life. Just too pessimistic.

Dude, take a step back. I posted my experience to share with others so that they reconsider shipping something valuable here and possibly losing it to Customs theft. Who said I wasn't taking full responsibility for my initial trust in their system? I'm working it out with FEDEX now. And who...

In my view, yes. I'm dealing with them now. The FEDEX guys at the airport didn't do anything but give me a phone number to call. No forms to fill out, no documentations for me to acknowledge that it was stolen so I can use for processing with their claims/insurance department. And that phone...

You start with "Impossible" and end with "... but MOSTLY advise received here is good advice." I'll assume the "impossible" was sarcasm.

I'm still new to BA and to this site. Was caught up in a rush of things to do. Shuck it up to being too lazy to double-check. But then I have received bad advice from this site before...