Quote: (10-21-2013 09:53 PM)portofmanteau Wrote:
Quote: (10-21-2013 04:52 PM)Soma Wrote:
Regarding getting US dollars: When I was living there you were able to buy dollars with a foreign credit card (and your passport) from the Banco Supervielle in Villa Freud, Palermo, i.e. it would be charged to your card as if you were purchasing a TV or anything else. That's what all the expats I knew used to do get get larger sums of money, for example, to pay their rent. Would be worth looking into on any active expat forums to see if you can still do that before deciding to bring in large amounts of cash.
Don't listen to anyone about currency issues or costs who hasn't been living here in the past year. Inflation is 30%. Currency/tax laws change on a monthly basis. The peso has devalued rapidly against the black market rate since late 2011, doing this kind of thing is a huge waste of money. I put up a thread about arbitrage in Argentina and I've seen a few others since then. Argentina is volatile and you should check in on the best way to do things about a month before coming, there are Argentine members on this forum and it looks like a bunch of other people who are actively living here.
Doing what kind of thing? I was explaining how it was possible to get US dollars from a local bank using your credit card. Nothing to do with pesos or devaluation.
I can't have sex with your personality, and I can't put my penis in your college degree, and I can't shove my fist in your childhood dreams, so why are you sharing all this information with me?