Another FedEx Question

[steveinbsas]

Do not, I repeat do not ship your laptop. You might as well save yourself some money and go buy a new one now, since in all likelihood that's what you'll be doing when your laptop mysteriously disappears or just somehow doesn't show up.

Maybe you'll be lucky, maybe there's someone who's had a good experience sending a laptop, but I've never heard of it happening.

Even if it "shows up" you will still pay 50% duty on the "retail value" of the laptop (whatever the aduana says it's worth) plus 50% duty on the cost of the shipping.

 

[tylertronic1000]

If that medicine is available in Argentina, you may get an argentinian doctors' prescription to buy it here.

And what if the medicine (prescribed in US and legal) is not available in Argentina and only available via shipment by a US company? I'd rather not have to take 6-12 months worth of meds in one batch but I will if I have to.

 

[dutara]

I've found this business of needing prescriptions very hit and miss.
Eg, I went to a branch of a popular chain pharmacy on Santa Fe and bought antibiotics. The fellow at the counter would have sold me anything, and was trying to.
Two weeks later I went to the same place to buy the same thing as a surplus supply. The sour-faced woman at the counter told me I needed a prescription, and was quite dismissive (actually, she looked like someone who would be uncomfortable being agreeable).
Some years ago I had a similar experience, and even with a prescription from a US doctor the woman refused to even look at it, and came off like she would have me bounced from the store if I continued to argue. It was then I learned the smaller pharmacies will sell you anything.
I don't like these places where you have to stand in the street outside the gate, tell them what you want and they hand you a bag of something after you've passed the money over. I understand that there are safety concerns but I have have my concerns about what I'm paying for as well.

 

[Johnny]

I've found this business of needing prescriptions very hit and miss.
Eg, I went to a branch of a popular chain pharmacy on Santa Fe and bought antibiotics. The fellow at the counter would have sold me anything, and was trying to.
Two weeks later I went to the same place to buy the same thing as a surplus supply. The sour-faced woman at the counter told me I needed a prescription, and was quite dismissive (actually, she looked like someone who would be uncomfortable being agreeable).
Some years ago I had a similar experience, and even with a prescription from a US doctor the woman refused to even look at it, and came off like she would have me bounced from the store if I continued to argue. It was then I learned the smaller pharmacies will sell you anything.
I don't like these places where you have to stand in the street outside the gate, tell them what you want and they hand you a bag of something after you've passed the money over. I understand that there are safety concerns but I have have my concerns about what I'm paying for as well.

Go to Farmacia Azul, on Cordoba, in between Florida and San Martin. Professional place, no dirty looks, no haughty broads, no script needed for just about anything.

 

[dutara]

Go to Farmacia Azul, on Cordoba, in between Florida and San Martin. Professional place, no dirty looks, no haughty broads, no script needed for just about anything.

Thanks for the tip. How are their prices?

There was a place on Las Heras (somewhere around Austria) that was real cheap, best prices in town by far. But they didn't carry everything, probably less than 100 items total. There were whiteboards listing what they had and the prices. Hadn't been in BaAs for 5 years, when I went looking for it a few months back I couldn't find it. They were always busy, I think the volume was driven by people being treated at the nearby med centers.

 

[sam3g]

I shipped my used laptop to BA last year (via DHL) and ended up paying something like 20% in taxes on the amount that customs thought it was worth. The WORST part was that first I had to go to the DHL office in microcentro and THEN to the Ezeiza airport where I went through customs hoops for more than two hours. Rediculous.

 

[Jvanka]

go to a doctor, tell him/her about your condition. Get a prescription and go to the pharmacy. A general doctor is AR$50 a consultation, specialist are around AR$100 to AR$200. The USA embassy web site has a list of English speaking doctors (But I guess those would be the more expensive ones)
Search the web for your prescriptions and check if the name is the same in Argentina as from where it sold back in your country. They may have different names. There are iphone/ipad apps for prescriptions definitions etc (in case you have a smart phone, ipad, etc)