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Currency Exchanges and Rates

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Now that we’re here, we’ve been taking a look at what the best way to pay for things is - cash or credit?  We’e found that:

using our Citibank Visa, we’re getting AR $2.9517 to the U.S. dollar after fees are calculated.
using our Schwab ATM card we’re getting AR $3.0436 to the U.S. dollar with no ATM fees.
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Tags: Living

Banking and Credit Card Fees

July 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments

We’re not planning on opening bank accounts in Argentina and we’re going to bring our U.S. issued credit cards with us, so there were a few things we really needed to consider:

Access to cash
ATM and credit card fees
Depositing checks in the U.S.

Access to Cash
While researching how to best get cash and pay bills when there, I found [...]

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Tags: Planning