Banking Can't withdraw USDs in Colonia/Uruguay?

[TaisonCer]

Hi!


I've an online/electronic wallet with a Debit Mastercard linked to it (account in USDs).
I never had a problem to purchase anything, withdraw money at ATMs or whatever.


My card is limited to 2.500 USDs / ATM withdrawal per day
BROU ATMs seem to be limited to 1.000 USDs per ATM withdrawal.

Still, it seems impossible to withdraw USDs from this BROU ATMs.


Is there something I'm missing here?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Nikes]

Did you call your bank to see what they said? It could be that having suddenly popped up in Uruguay making a large withdrawal it triggered some fraud block.

There's a curious thing about the BROU ATMs, they seem to go temporarily out of service after each US dollar withdrawal for about 30 seconds, and then return to service.

 

[MikeYoung]

Why not try another machine. I didn't have any issues withdrawing in Uruguay but I used an HSBC machine.

 

[earlyretirement]

It's been last year since I went to Uruguay but I never had any problems at all withdrawing funds unless the actual ATM was out of money.

A few times in Punta del Este the ATM machines would do strange things like once you pulled out a large amount of money, it would return your card but then lock up for a few minutes but if you came back 10/15 minutes later it was working again.

I had several USA bank account ATM cards so could pull out quite a bit of money and bring it back to Argentina.

The trick is to let your USA bank know you will be there so they don't flag it for fraud and also see if you can increase your withdrawal limits. The best ATM machine I had luck with was the shopping mall there in Punta del Este. I used the ATM machines at HSBC in Montevideo all the time too.