My wife said she had no problem with the transfer. I sent it to her as a cash pickup and she just hit the WU icon on pago facil, entered the transfer number and it prompts you through what info it needs, and then she had it deposited in her bank account after a 5-minute wait
Just completed another WU transfer to an Argentine recipient. Money requested at 07:30 this morning and in the person's Santander account by 18:00 this afternoon.
MoneyGram is competitive again! At least today. 1207.43/dollar (US$2 fee).
Transfer US$1000, buy them back on Florida, and pocket around 45000 pesos. And have some bills to sell for the next time the blue is the highest available rate.
Yesterday was weird. The WU rate was low in the morning. I noticed after that that the CCL rate (along with MEP and blue rates) was down sharply (~5%), and I checked WU in the early afternoon, around 1:30pm, expecting to see it down more. It was 1292! Seeing that, I made a transfer at 2:15pm.
Around 4pm, I checked it again, and it was 1243! Very unusual for activity all in the same day.
And one other strange thing. At the end of the day, I noticed that the blue and the MEP were still down sharply, but the CCL had recovered to about even. (1300 and change).
Whenever I transfer Western Union it says I can send up to $5,000. In reality, a lot of smaller offices aren't going to be able to give you a fraction of that. If you were going to receive anything close to $5,000 worth of pesos in cash, you'll most likely need to go to a large and busy WU office in a touristy area and probably check with them ahead of time to make sure it's OK.