YanquiGallego
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Well obviously. However, last week I called my banks phone service and was told that being as I was a bank customer, if I wanted to bring some pesos, exchange them for dollars, and deposit them into my account, that they did offer this service.
Perhaps naively, based on my conversation with this customer service rep, who otherwise seemed to know what she she was talking about, I flew to the states with about 16.000 pesos hoping to deposit them into my account in dollars.
Out of curiosity, once at my initial destination in the states, Atlanta, just to see what the exchange house rate would be, I literally went to all the currency exchanges from concourse e (international) to a and was told by all of them, including the major airport one, travelex, and all of them told me the same thing- their companies had suspended any and all transactions having to do with argentine pesos.
Once I got to my bank, Chase, the branch manager indeed confirmed, much to her own surprise, that while they are glad to exchange currencies as a service to their clients, Argentina was out of the question. This piqued her interest and she called the foreign currency office of chase who told her it had something to do with the "unrealistic and undetermined currency value" and that basically to cover their butts Chase was not going to touch Argy pesos. She felt so bad about this that she literally called other banks (great customer service- how I have missed thee) everything from major ones , bank of America, wells Fargo, to smaller ones and most said the same thing, that they do offer currency exchange services but exclude the argentine peso at the moment.
Basically, I feel like I have a "store credit" for Argentina. Thankfully I did bring along the cards and mom is here. Just wanted to give anyone who is coming a heads up, spend those pesos !
Perhaps naively, based on my conversation with this customer service rep, who otherwise seemed to know what she she was talking about, I flew to the states with about 16.000 pesos hoping to deposit them into my account in dollars.
Out of curiosity, once at my initial destination in the states, Atlanta, just to see what the exchange house rate would be, I literally went to all the currency exchanges from concourse e (international) to a and was told by all of them, including the major airport one, travelex, and all of them told me the same thing- their companies had suspended any and all transactions having to do with argentine pesos.
Once I got to my bank, Chase, the branch manager indeed confirmed, much to her own surprise, that while they are glad to exchange currencies as a service to their clients, Argentina was out of the question. This piqued her interest and she called the foreign currency office of chase who told her it had something to do with the "unrealistic and undetermined currency value" and that basically to cover their butts Chase was not going to touch Argy pesos. She felt so bad about this that she literally called other banks (great customer service- how I have missed thee) everything from major ones , bank of America, wells Fargo, to smaller ones and most said the same thing, that they do offer currency exchange services but exclude the argentine peso at the moment.
Basically, I feel like I have a "store credit" for Argentina. Thankfully I did bring along the cards and mom is here. Just wanted to give anyone who is coming a heads up, spend those pesos !
