Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

tom borland said:
I used a Chase Hyatt card today at Le Pain Quotidien in Recoleta to buy a Medialuna. $512 pesos and the pending charge is showing as $3.25 which is exactly the same as the official rate on the xe app. One hopeful thought is that the charge will correct to the MEP rate once it goes from pending to an actual charge. Otherwise it's not in effect yet.
The cashier tapped my card and that was it. No request for an id or dni number
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Bueno, I’ll be todays idiot: ran out of cash, bought a Starbucks, got charged at old rate. Not up yet. 🙏
 
Oh my GOD! Are you telling me that things are confused, chaotic, disorganized, and generally not working as the government said they would?
I am shocked, deeply shocked. This has never happened before in Argentina. Never, I tell you!
 
the currency converter posted a few pages back still shows 160/1. i think its just not active yet.
 
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