2008/7/29 Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 25.07.2008, 17:54 -0300 schrieb Dario Rapisardi: >> >Just FYI: Since this year, many (all?) foreigners don't get more >> >than 600$..650$ (moon phase?) from ATMs (= 120..130 EUR or >> >200..215 U$S). Last year, problem did not exist. (AFAIK, Swiss >> >embassy asked for an explanation and the banks replied, it's a >> >government order, while the government said, the banks are the >> >culprits or something like that.) >> >> For the record, I have a debit card from Spain which supposedly has a >> $300 limit (it used to be $500 last year). However, nothing prevents >> me from extracting $300 several times in the same day, or even without >> taking the card off the ATM (you take off $300, it asks you "do you >> want to make another transaction?" -> Yes! -> another withdrawal, >> etc). The only upper limit I was able to find was $3000. >> >> A friend of mine from Colombia also had the $300 limit, and he also >> worked around it with the "multiple withdrawal" hack. > > you are talking about Debit card – does the problem also exist for > Credit cards? > > In particular, with my MasterCard, I have to pay no fee if I withdraw > more than 100€ (so more than 500 Pesos) – how are my chances of finding > an ATM that allows me that?
I cannot tell. My friend from Colombia was using a VISA credit card, and mine is a VISA debit card. We both had the 300 pesos limit, but as someone around here said, your mileage may vary. Perhaps someone with a Master Card already tried that. Good luck, Dario.- _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
