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My father built me a grandfather clock 35 years ago and told me I need to get it cleaned every 10 years. A friend recommended someone 10 years ago, but of course I've lost the contact info. The clock is functioning, just running fast and we have two cats so it's probably in need of a good oil...

I do bank to bank transfers with Western Union, for some reason it rejected my debit card when I tried to use it for a speedier transfer or lower fee. It always says 0-8 business days to transfer and it varies a lot, sometimes it takes 8 days but the last two transfers I did took 2 days to...

A friend did mention Wise to me before but I never followed up, I just created an account there and tried to transfer $2k USA, Wise had a better exchange rate and lower fee then Western Union. Thanks so much for the suggestion, I'll try Wise the next time I need to transfer money.

I've tried Remitly and Western Union always has a better rate, even when factoring in the $60 fee.

I checked the bottle and Zonia is a product of Argentina, so I guess that's why it's more reasonably priced, no import taxes as I assume Campbell's is. And I do live in Recoleta, so I know prices are inflated by neighborhood! I recently tried to get some custom chair slip covers made and a...

I've bought those and they are tasty! Still more expensive then the bigger bottles though, and I hate using all that glass, although I do use the recycle dumpsters in my neighborhood and try and recycle as much as I can.

Awesome, thanks so much, I did see the Cambell's in a soda pop can size but not the 1.36 liter one at my local Disco on Rodriguez Peña in Recoleta. The Zonia tomato juice is still a little cheaper and I can get 6 bottles of it from Mercado Libre at a time with free delivery. I also discovered...

I usually transfer $2,000 from CitiBank in the USA and the fee is always $60 USA. Is your bank in the USA? Which bank is it?

I'm still using Western Union, even with the $60 transfer fee, it's just so convenient because it goes right into my Argentina Santander account. I just transferred some money and with the fee I got a rate of 1263.85 pesos.

WOW, this was amazing, thanks so much for the very thorough explanations!

Thanks for the explanation! I appreciate it!

I've been in Argentina almost 25 years and I still love it here, my Argentine friends think we're crazy to live here, but I'm sure everyone here has that same experience with their Argentine friends. Even though I'm a long term resident, I don't really pay close attention to local politics or...

I just tried it with CitiBank USA to my Argentina Santander and it said it was $25 wire transfer fee.

Yes, what I was thinking of doing is doing a wire transfer from my USA bank into my Santander USA dollar account. Then I would use an ATM in Argentina to pull USA $$$ out of my dollar account, then convert it into pesos with my cambio guy. I think wire transfers are $25 USA within the USA, I...

Have you tried to withdraw USA $$$ from an ATM here in Argentina? I heard you could do it, but I haven't tried yet. If you can, that might make it cheaper then Western Union transfers to do a wire transfer from the USA to my Santander USA dollar account, and then pull out USA $$$ from the ATM...

Yeah, what are these YPF platform scam messages about? https://swcc.net/click?key=21298aa707a0362b5cc0&ad_id={{ad.id}} Just what people who have little money need, a scam to lose what they have thinking they can make money.

I'm not sure I understand, what is an "international account" at Schwab? I opened mine a long time ago when I still lived in the USA so I didn't designate it as international, I just opened the account. I have all my bank statements go my USA box address in Miami. But banks know this is not a...

Two of my Argentines friends had been long term customers at CitiBank and Wells Fargo and a few years ago the banks closed the accounts with no notice and sent them a check for the balance. They did say it was because they didn't live in the USA. I'm a USA citizen, live in Buenos Aires full...

I've had a Schwab account for over 30 years, their motto is everything is free, so lots of free choices in buying mutual funds. I don't buy individual stocks so I don't know about fees for that at Schwab. I recently closed my credit union, which I was really happy with, and opened a Schwab...

I prefer to do electronic transfers so I'm not waiting in lines, or walking out of WU with lots of cash, then having to deposit it into my Santander acct, again waiting in line there. So it's more of a convenience/safety (lazy) thing for me to do the transfer directly into my account.