Sube Card

[robwerwe]

This may be true, but... if you (1) Lose your card, then (2) You can not get it replaced with ALL OF YOUR MONEY STILL ON IT!

However, you are no longer being tracked by the government to see what your travel habits are, times of day, frequency during the day/week... so there's that.

I'd rather pay a tiny bit extra and not be tracked.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Anyone think the GCBA govt has the capability to actually do anything useful with your data!!

Google they ain't.

 

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As have posted many times before, YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE!!!!! or to OCA!! you no longer have to produce any documents!!!!

I can't believe that this information doesn't sink in. There are MANY threads on this already..........

In the last few days, i've gone to 5 kioscos listed on the site and a few others, and all have been sold out...

so maybe the post offices are a more secure bet to actually get one...

 

[amsam]

Jaja, that website is hilarious. I went to probably 6 places they list as "centros de obtención" and they all looked at me blankly and said "no." Not like "no, sorry, we've run out." Like "stupid gringo, why would you ask me this? obvs we only recargarlas." Finally one of the "centros de obtención" directed us to an OCA, which had big signs in the window saying "obtenga aquí sube." We were dancing in the street for joy but after waiting in line there for media hora we found out that "obtenga aquí sube" actually means "we don't have any subes and nobody else in the neighborhood does either." (This is San Telmo.) Anybody here buy one recently, and if so where??

 

[Lulu-Kyoko]

I keep "losing" my subte cards-- honestly, I have no idea what happens to them. And no, I don't register them but I also don't put a lot of money on them.

Anyway, I've gotten all four replacements in Retiro. There is an blue booth in the middle of the station. I've never had any difficulties.

 

[Peony54]

I also got my card in retiro!

 

[mjohnstone]

I think there are some blue booths (as mentioned by Lulu-Kyoko) in Constitución's train station (on one of the entrance/side halls).

 

[DontMindMe]

Jaja, that website is hilarious. I went to probably 6 places they list as "centros de obtención" and they all looked at me blankly and said "no." Not like "no, sorry, we've run out." Like "stupid gringo, why would you ask me this? obvs we only recargarlas." Finally one of the "centros de obtención" directed us to an OCA, which had big signs in the window saying "obtenga aquí sube." We were dancing in the street for joy but after waiting in line there for media hora we found out that "obtenga aquí sube" actually means "we don't have any subes and nobody else in the neighborhood does either." (This is San Telmo.) Anybody here buy one recently, and if so where??

Directions from San Telmo-- this is where I got mine a month ago: Walk down Independencia, cross 9 de Julio and walk past UADE. The second street is Santiago del Estero. Take a left and on the left right there is a kiosco, the kind that's just a window. The nice lady who works there sells them (no documents required of course) and recharges them. The kiosco by UADE on Independencia recharges them, but doesn't sell them. I was going to register mine online but the page wasn't working so I decided I didn't care. It's hilarious that we can't buy or recharge them down in the subte station...you know, where we used to buy tickets. That would be too logical I guess.

 

[ARbound]

From my experience:

I tried to get mine at the Post Office in Recoleta and was given a "Surely you can't be serious look" had a paper with an address given to me (convenience store somewhere, never heard of the street, ain't nobody got time for that) and she closed her window and started playing tetris or something on her shitty Nokia Windows Phone. So, I gave up with that, went to the post office on 25 May, fought with the woman because she said she didn't have change for a $100, only to find out she did after she made me go get change, then said her recharge station wasn't working, blah blah blah... Got the card at least.
Then I went to the SUBE Service Center near Congreso to register it incase I have it lost/stolen.

So, my advise for Gringos:

- Post Office on 25 May EXACT CHANGE ($15?? I think)
- SUBE Office 3 Blocks up from Congreso to Register it if you don't have a DNI BRING YOUR PASSPORT
- Patience

I'd rather pay a tiny bit extra and not be tracked.

LOL, let's break this silliness down:

1: Macri/CFK/SIDE don't care why or where what you do with the transit, and is not gonna track you.

2: SUBE/SUBTE will want to track you for actually good reasons, such as:
-trafic patterns
-train/bus schedules
-fare evasion calculation
-expected growth/decline
-network expansion

3: Did I mention that if you have to take a Commuter Train/The SUBTE/Colectivos you're not important enough to be tracked, sorry. Important people have cars/drivers take them everywhere, and even more important people have others do stuff for them. Using SUBE=Not important enough to be tracked.

 

[thomsono1912]

I keep "losing" my subte cards-- honestly, I have no idea what happens to them. And no, I don't register them but I also don't put a lot of money on them.

Do you put them in you pocket after boarding the train? Because that might explain where they keep disappearing too...