pmacay
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We have a Santander debit and credit card. Recently I purchased some show tickets for an upcoming trip to Mexico, the Mexican show quoted me a price in Argentina pesos. When the charge arrived at Santander, it was converted into a USA $$ amount. I contacted the Mexican company and they assured me that they charged my credit card in Arg pesos. I went to Santander and the representative told me this is a government policy that all charges made outside Argentina are converted into a USA $$ charge. Ok, government regulation, whatcha gonna do?
Now here is where it gets weird.
We have a recurring USA $$ charge every month to pay for a youtube premium membership. I did a little math and it seems all backwards, I have to be doing something wrong. Last month the YouTube premium was charged to our Santander account as u$s 1,79 and Santander converted the charge as Arg pesos -973,06 to pay it off.
That comes out to 544 pesos to the USA $$$, this was for the month of May 2024.
$1.79 x 544 = 973.76
So the debit to our account was 973.06 ARG pesos to pay a $1.79 USA charge
so if I'm figuring this right
973.06 pesos / 1190 (the last blue dollar exchange rate we got) will be 0.82 cents USA to pay off a $1.79 USA charge on our Santander account.
This makes no sense. If my math is right then it makes sense to use our Argentina credit cards when we travel abroad, instead of our USA credit cards.
Anyone have any ideas on using your Argentina credit card when traveling abroad?
Now here is where it gets weird.
We have a recurring USA $$ charge every month to pay for a youtube premium membership. I did a little math and it seems all backwards, I have to be doing something wrong. Last month the YouTube premium was charged to our Santander account as u$s 1,79 and Santander converted the charge as Arg pesos -973,06 to pay it off.
That comes out to 544 pesos to the USA $$$, this was for the month of May 2024.
$1.79 x 544 = 973.76
So the debit to our account was 973.06 ARG pesos to pay a $1.79 USA charge
so if I'm figuring this right
973.06 pesos / 1190 (the last blue dollar exchange rate we got) will be 0.82 cents USA to pay off a $1.79 USA charge on our Santander account.
This makes no sense. If my math is right then it makes sense to use our Argentina credit cards when we travel abroad, instead of our USA credit cards.
Anyone have any ideas on using your Argentina credit card when traveling abroad?