On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:48:39AM -0300, Dario Rapisardi said: > 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.
I took out ARS 390 last ight from an ATM at the airport with a UK debit card. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Euch ist bekannt, was wir beduerfen; | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wir wollen stark Getraenke schluerfen. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | -- Goethe, "Faust" | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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