Impossible To Get Credit Card Replacement

[johnw100]

I`ve had 4 credit cards expire since we`ve been out here, I use my parents address as the address back home. When it arrives there I phone the credit card company and ask them to put a hold on the card until I give them the go ahead. Then I get my parents to send the card over in normal post. When it arrives, unblock the credit card. Works everytime.

 

[nicoenarg]

Apparently DHL has also canceled its services to Argentina because of the retarded regulations of this retarded govt.;

This reminds me:

I think it's dishonorable to go into someone's house and start criticizing how they do things.

On this note I say, the best places to get coffee so far for me are Establecimiento de Cafe and certain nondescript restaurants (not cafes) where for some weird reason they happen to make a good cup of coffee.

Go get a cup of coffee, I'm sure that'll solve your problem.

 

[ghost]

I understand your frustration but I also want to express my political correctness in saying that the *r word is really not appropriate in this instance...

Retiro?

 

[johnw100]

Yes I can also have someone from the US just send it to me after accepting it on my behalf. But the point is this is a huge hassle and I'm not in the mood to waste a day waiting in line at Retiro post office. This is all retarded.

Just to add to my previous post. If its sent normal post it will be delivered to your front door. No need to go queue anywhere.

 

[sesamosinsal]

Go get a cup of coffee, I'm sure that'll solve your problem.

And a piece of pizza.

 

[Rich One]

Not related to AMEXCO Card.
On 1/13/15 a friend misplaced his, US Bank issued Visa Card, Callled the bank and received a replacement in 3 days, via Fedex. to his hotel---!

 

[Girino]

What you want to do is switch the address on file with your banks, credit card issuers, brokerage services and so on to a mail forwarding service. Those mail forwarding services give you a street address under your name. So for Amex it would look like your new residential address. The forwarding company will email you when they have new mail for you and you can have them scan it and/or forward it to wherever you want. Works well. Google it or search in the forum here. I personally had a good experience with mailboxforwarding.com but there are many others.

Be sure to change your mailing address and not your residential address. When I opened my account with citi and have them my mail forwarding address as both residential and physical, I got a letter stating that the address I provided was registered as a mailing service. It was irrelevant that I had that same address on my US driving license,
I argued a little with the branch manager because the govt was accepting that address as my residence address and they didn't. They shrugged and insisted I provided another address, which I did. However when I opened an account with Schwab, got the same letter, showed my driving license as a proof of address and they accepted it.

 

[bobsnowpuppy]

Just to add to my previous post. If its sent normal post it will be delivered to your front door. No need to go queue anywhere.

I had fraud charges on my Amex 3 wks ago. I had it reissued via amex website chat and mailed to my daughter in the US. She then put it into another standard size letter envelope, marked "business documents" on lower left and pd $1.15 and dropped in regular mail. I had it at my apt here in 10 days.

 

[cuore]

Why don't you go to the AMEX office? When I worked there (some years ago, but still), AMEX had the embossing machine right in the same building and they surely issued plenty of foreign cards

 

[Sockhopper]

The OP's problem has nothing to do with Argentina nor with any foreign credit card issuer disdaining Argentina.

All Canadian credit card issuers are adamant about never sending RENEWALS of expired cards abroad to ANY country. Even getting a Canadian bank to send me a new debit card in France where I live now is very hard and we're praying. How recent these changes are I don't know. Several cc issuers and banks aren't budging on this policy. Three years ago, one volunteered to courier to me in BA a replacement credit card within 48 hours. 2.5 years' ago, they assured me they'd make things easy for us in France. Policies change.

Here are some terms (unpublished) that can determine whether they'll send a new cc or not to anywhere outside Canada:
-If one needs a renewal when his current one expires- NO, never.

-If a card is lost or stolen - YES.

-If the bank suspects or knows that one's personal cc details (but not his actual card) have been obtained by somebody or some business that's suspicious, and the bank then designates the card as 'potentially compromised' and then blocks it - NO.

-if any fraud has been transacted by somebody who got just your card's details -regardless of how ludicrously impossible for you it would be to buy such things on account of where you live or your history, credit record, social demographic etc- NO.

-In the rarest of cases, eg if one has 'only' gone to live in the US, then his renewal card might be mailed to a Canadian living there - YES MAYBE. For more adventurous people who dare to move elsewhere, tough.

(Perhaps the US has become a new Canadian territory during my absence. The news one fails to catch about 'back home' can be embarrassing not to know! It can make one look as foolish as one looks when he trashes a foreign country he's living in as causing him a problem when it hasn't.

Banking laws have proliferated everywhere in an effort to curtail money laundering, arms' sales, tax evasion and other crimes. So many that our French bank manager apologized for the 2 hours we each spent just signing dozens of pages and writing by hand a sentence on each page. Just to open a fully functioning bank account quickly over 6 weeks even though we're EU citizens. Several procedures in between different appointments. Several official authorities involved. We're not complaining. We got what we wanted. Is it harder than that for foreigners to open a bank account in BA?

A fresh credit card can sell for $US500 in on the international black market, an older one for as little as 50 cents! Russian 'card' gangs operate most freely and lucratively in the US, I read. How anyone got my credit card details and distributed them across Canada to kids who partied on it, I don't know. I've not been in NA for 2.5 years nor ordered from any business there; haven't used my card at shops here and have never shopped at big name stores famous for having been hacked. My card was abused while it was locked away and I was buying nothing with it.


I think the OP should take the advice of the poster who told him to go have a coffee. That worked for me after a 3-hour ordeal in a BA post office and it was good training for adapting to bureaucracy in France and now with banks etc in Canada.

In order to have my credit card issuer even agree to mail my 'renewal' card to a friend's address in Canada once it completes its investigation, I may have to first sign an affidavit swearing something like the following but less snarky:

"I didn't ask Canada's worst pizza chain in 2 cities over 2 days to deliver to me in France several hundred $ worth of pizzas! When I want pizza, I can whenever I want sit at a table near the sea in Italy and be served my choice of 50 in less time (by train) than it used to take a good pizzeria a mile away from me in Canada to bring me one."



Is hanging around a BA office for hours frustrated and bored so as to obtain a cc so bad that blaming a whole country feels good to the OP? Complaining's reasonable. Trashing isn't especially when one has mis-identified what or who is responsible for a problem!