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Old Jul 30, 2007 | 3:05 pm
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Many smaller lodging operations that do not accept credit cards have WU as their only means to secure a deposit for the requested reservations. Acceptance of credit cards is (unfortunatetly) not as widespread in Argentina, so many smaller establishments will use WU or similar services to get payments from folks that make bookings overseas.
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