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Old Jul 19, 2023 | 7:04 pm
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Originally Posted by fedechat
If you use it as credit, it should get the foreign tourist rate (blue rate -10% or so), but to extract $$... I could avoid that, in that case try the Western Union route, cheaper and better rate than blue.
WU hovers on either side of Blue, so from day to day or week to week, YCERMV.

Just a couple of caveats with WU -
Your pick-up spot may not have enough cash on hand at times; and,
Argentina has more holidays than pretty much anywhere else on earth - holidays where services like banking, etc, are closed, so make sure you don't get stuck without $ - i.e., my last trip down there had a finde XL - a 4 day long weekend.
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