Western Union money transfer

[pmacay]

I just sent 2K on May 1 from a USA bank to an ARG Santander bank acct, the good thing is it said it will arrive in 6 days, previously it was taking 8. I tried again to use my husband's debit card to do a transfer to our account but it was rejected. I'm thinking because it's both our account that WU is thinking I'm trying to avoid transfer fees by using a new login to the same bank account. (??) I did order a new debit card from CitiBank, my old card was an ATM card, not Debit, which I thought was the same but the debit card has that 3 character security code on the back that the ATM card didn't have. On May 1 with the $60 transfer fee the exchange rate I got was $1,155 pesos.

 

[Caribbean Cool]

And about Western Union......at one time in the past they blocked me. From sending and receiving. I never could find out why. I finally figured out how to use WU again....open a new account with a different email address. Works well. But only depending on W.U. for life down here I think is a marginal idea. A backup is important.

 

[Che1990]

Dólar Hoy is showing it even higher. Don’t want to get my hopes up though!

nope it was a mistake

 

[steveinbsas]

Yeah it spiked Friday 15% it should be somewhere around 1280~; you can expect that Monday somewhere during the day/evening.

Looks like it's down today:

Dólar CCL hoy, cotización y precio del Dólar CCL | Clarín

Dólar CCL. Los principales indicadores económicos de Argentina y el mundo. Noticias del dólar, Merval, empresas argentinas, acciones y bonos de deuda.

www.clarin.com

Compra: $1207,60

Venta: $1206,80

I made a WU transfer on Friday at a rate of $1190.00. It hasn't changed since.

 

[steveinbsas]

PS: the link in my previous post actually indicates today's CCL declined over 14% from the prior rate of $1520, so it went up suddenly amd then suddenly dropped, while the WU rate remained unchanged:

From the Clarin link:

Compra

$1209,60

Venta

$1209,10

Valor anterior

$1547

Variación

-11.53%

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. It's not umcommon for Western Union to wait to see if a sudden increase is sustained.

 

[pmacay]

Looks like it's down today:

Dólar CCL hoy, cotización y precio del Dólar CCL | Clarín

Dólar CCL. Los principales indicadores económicos de Argentina y el mundo. Noticias del dólar, Merval, empresas argentinas, acciones y bonos de deuda.

www.clarin.com

Compra: $1207,60

Venta: $1206,80

I made a WU transfer on Friday at a rate of $1190.00. It hasn't changed since.

Yes, my rate was also 1190 on May 1, but factoring in the $60 transfer fee on a 2K transfer took the rate down to 1155.