BAwithkids
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John.St said:
Let me ask - if you don't carry a wallet, what do you carry? Do you carry any ID? Do you have a single credit card, or just cash? What are the basics here...
Is BsAs that dangerous??
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Let me ask - if you don't carry a wallet, what do you carry? Do you carry any ID? Do you have a single credit card, or just cash? What are the basics here...
I think he was joking. I carry a wallet and with the exception of the mentioned incident have never had a problem.
His point about being street smart is very valid though.
For example I always keep my wallet in my front pockets or the inside breast pocket of a jacket. I walk quickly on the street, usually because I'm in a hurry but it also makes you a lot harder to pick pocket. I keep my eyes open always, at night I look at my shadow from the street lights to make sure noone is coming up right behind me. Etc etc.
His point about being street smart is very valid though.
For example I always keep my wallet in my front pockets or the inside breast pocket of a jacket. I walk quickly on the street, usually because I'm in a hurry but it also makes you a lot harder to pick pocket. I keep my eyes open always, at night I look at my shadow from the street lights to make sure noone is coming up right behind me. Etc etc.
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Hellek said:
I just saw it happen about an hour ago at Jean Jaures & Corrientes, about a block away from the Abasto Shopping Center. That area is a hot bed for cell phone theft.
Regarding wallets, it's pointless to carry them. I always carry the cash I need and a copy of my passport. What's the point of carrying an empty wallet around? I'd never carry my credit cards or use them here. Too much of a hassle if one of them gets swiped.
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The answer is here. I have two. Room for cash + one credit card on one side, passport + one credit card on the other side of my body: http://baexpats.org/expat-life/5744-carrying-large-sums-cash-how.html#post34442BAwithkids said:
- oh and I never carry my passport except when absolutely needed, have a plastificado color copy of my passport for daily use, accepted everywhere as ID - and cash for immediate use folded in two small plastic pouches (7 by 10 cm) cut from a checkbook cover, one in my shirt pocket and one deep in a side pocket.
Two more tips, which I learned in Mexico:
http://baexpats.org/newcomers-forum/5606-securing-your-bag-restaurants.html#post33415
http://baexpats.org/expat-life/5776-how-watch-your-watch.html#post34762
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BAwithkids said:
I've been successfully pickpocketed twice: once in a street market in Bolivia (well, you'd expect that, wouldn't you?) and once in a supermarket in a provincial town in England. So I don't have one rule for Argentina and another for elsewhere, I follow the same plan wherever I am. First: I only ever take out of the house the cash or cards that I know I am going to need that day and I spread that stuff around my inside pockets. I can't understand people walking around with wallets stuffed with every conceivable kind of card: if the wallet goes, everything is gone. Next I have some small change loose in a trouser pocket for the bus and for tipping lavatory attendants and the like: that avoids pulling out a coin purse and rummaging through it. Finally I keep a nice fat wallet in my sucker pocket. The wallet contains a couple of low value notes and some out of date bank cards. Even so, I always button down the pocket and make every effort to protect it. I think that's what the thieves call a distraction technique. Cellphone? I don't carry one. I hate the things.
9. Fake charity collectors – I had to pay ARS10 to get into the cemetery at Recoleta.. the first time I went, I didn’t have to pay… I got scammed, and I knew I was being scammed! I chose not to argue (I let myself get ridden haha!)
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omg... fake charity collectors?? i thought they were real!! and they even showed me the australian $20 notes they had to make me feel guilty for not carrying around more money with me and why wasnt i giving them $20aud (like id be carrying aud with me...?)
bradlyhale said:
Yeah you have to watch out in front of Abasto -- also a lot of the guys that "help" you get a cab, hold the door open for you etc are actually there to try and pickpocket you! Especially around big holidays / shopping days (ie the next one will be Dia del Nino) -- usually it's a lot calmer to get in a cab on the Aguero side rather than Corrientes.
