Could you not simply buy usdt at a marginal cost and then withdraw the cash here? I payed 0.5% to with draw $1000+ dollars through a local cuerva last week, 0.25 for sums of $5000+. Surely you could just deposit that into a dollar account here or some safety deposit box?
So say the peso does shoot up 20%, does this mean that the vendors will increase prices by that? Which in turn everything becomes 20% more expensive in dollars because we have been enjoying the blue rate all this time?
Fancy expanding your view or are we supposed to be in awe and guess at your sweeping generalisations?
Specifically Anglo and to a more interesting extent "US meddling"? Or the wider issues for all of South America?
This is the real difference not 20%. Although you will get discounts at various places with cash but it depends whether you can be bothered finding a cambio and changing up the money/carrying cash around etc.
I went to Marcos Paz recently for some relaxation with friends and in the small town there were so many butchers you couldn't swing a cat with hitting one.
Quick google search put bananas in Australia between $3.50AUD($2.21USD) and $5.99AUD($3.77USD), so not quite double the 1500 to 2500 peso choices I had.
Australian banana prices search
In fact a nice list of countries by banana prices here.
Colour me shocked.
I just carried back four bags of fruit and veg for 19k earlier, some of these posts are seriously exaggerated or you are genuinely being taken for a ride.
I payed $7k+ usd upfront for my apartment then monthly for the remainder after that. I used an exchange house in Belgrano who a friend had previously used to withdraw to buy a car. Everything smooth and above board, bought one of those check pens for the notes but needn't have bothered. I now...
I hope you are right, I read some things through Amazon could be damaged and nothing on ML international. Would be good to hear of any real experience as it does drive me up the wall.