Are Argentines worried about a Possible Bank Run (Correlito 2.0)?

Bingo said:

This happened to a girl I went out on a date with last weekend. She told me she went to the bank to withdraw some cash. They asked her where the funds came from that she deposited into her own bank! She did some funds with the amnesty and filled out all the required forms. They told her to come back the next business day which was Monday. Then she got there and they gave her all old $100 bills. She asked for new ones because she wouldn't be able to exchange these. They didn't care. I told her I will change them when I go to the US.

Banks here sound desperate if they are doing this to everyone. @Darksider415 have you tried to withdraw USD in BA? Do they give you older bills too?

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Darksider415 said:

I haven't gone yet this month, but I've only gotten cara grande with the occasional blue bill. The oldest I've gotten were the series 1996, but those are "cara grande" and my landlord still accepts them.

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Darksider415 said:

I haven't gone yet this month, but I've only gotten cara grande with the occasional blue bill. The oldest I've gotten were the series 1996, but those are "cara grande" and my landlord still accepts them.

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Darksider415 said:

So, my case is slightly unusual because I have a good-paying startup gig that pays me en blanco, depositing the dollars in an account across the river in Uruguay...

I only transfer enough into Argentina to cover expenses and I only put enough dollars in the local account to pay any USD expenses on my local credit cards + pay my rent. All of my actual savings either stay in Uruguay or get sent from Uruguay to one of my US accounts.

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Darksider415 said:

I think it probably helps that I only put a few hundred in once a month and I pull that few hundred out within a few days. I don't think anyone is going to give me a hard time about wanting cara grande bills for only $600ish.

That said, I keep my actual money abroad.

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Spend Thrift said:

have both peso and dollars

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Bingo said:

@Darksider415 have you tried to withdraw USD in BA? Do they give you older bills too?

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StatusNomadicus said:

how'd you get a USD account with a Precaria? this would be a huge update, right?


i take out USD all the time in Mendoza from a Santander ATM - 90% of the time they are crisp and new. the other older ones or stained/bent ones i try to use for routine stuff when paying locals or businesses in Dollars. can take out 1,000 bucks at a time no issues



i don't know much about the Corralito so i asked Grok (twitter/X AI, which has become my new Google search homepage for 95% of info), here: https://x.com/i/grok/share/kERB4jlU800KRrpZTpaAz00iA

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StatusNomadicus said:

how'd you get a USD account with a Precaria? this would be a huge update, right?


i take out USD all the time in Mendoza from a Santander ATM - 90% of the time they are crisp and new. the other older ones or stained/bent ones i try to use for routine stuff when paying locals or businesses in Dollars. can take out 1,000 bucks at a time no issues



i don't know much about the Corralito so i asked Grok (twitter/X AI, which has become my new Google search homepage for 95% of info), here: https://x.com/i/grok/share/kERB4jlU800KRrpZTpaAz00iA

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