I Need Advice For Buying Dollars.

[Gringoboy]

Adri's a public accountant and does this AFIP/USD stuff less frequently than she used to, for obvious reasons.
Last week she applied for some USD for one of her clients who's going on a business trip to Russia for five days and miraculously he was 'awarded' 600USD.
At that, she started to jump around the room.

 

[AmigoArtistico]

I was left to speculate since no human would tell me the rate. I was constantly referred to the rate conversion page.

And save your sarcasm for some other idiot.

As for the reason for my sarcasm:

• You created this thread and laid out your "schemes" for how you wanted to beat the system and get more than the black market rate for your dollars
• You received many informed responses from many members with knowledge and experience on this subject
• You even received valuable tips from very knowledgeable people here on the various options you have for maximizing your situation

After all of those messages, you make a post which suggests, against all this wisdom, that -- based on a telephone conversation with someone in a local branch of a bank in Wisconsin -- you are somehow going to magically get the bank to pay you substantially more than your pesos are worth (not the type of thing that banks have ever been inclined to do).

I'm sarcastic and cynical by nature, but even if I weren't I don't think I could have resisted it in your case.

And for the record, I didn't call you an idiot. You did that yourself.

 

[AngelinBA]

Foreigners move to Buenos Aires, or tourists visit, and they can't comprehend that there's no logic here. Once they understand that fact only then will they be able to co-exist here. Otherwise they'll live in constant frustration. Of course it's ridiculous that you can't dump your pesos before returning to your home country. It's Argentina. It is what it is. I think it's because down here in the Southern Hemisphere we're upside down and everything must work in reverse order.

Your post made me laugh, thanks. However, I am from the southern hemisphere also, and my country doesn't work in reverse order like Argentina. we will have to think up some other excuse, something that sounds positive like Argentina is like this because it's unique!

 

[nlaruccia]

tourists should cash only what they may need in pesos, if they end up with pesos, buy some leather goods or a nice purse...!

It's funny you should mention buying leather goods with left over pesos. My friend was returning to the States the day before yesterday and he didn't know what to do with his left over pesos. I suggested that he buy leather goods as gifts and he chuckled and said there was no way he was going to waste his pesos on hyper inflated leather products. He decided to save them for his next trip in October (hopefully they'll still have value by that time) and the small broken $2 and $5 peso bills he had that were completely ripped he gave away to random people. He lives in the Northern Hemisphere, but lacks logic anyway.