Digital Nomad
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Blue rate jumped up today to 1,360 to $1. I sent myself a WU today as I saw that I had a no fee transfer. I got 1,302.09 so WU rate also is going up. Woo hoo.
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Digital Nomad
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Just sent myself a payment today. 1,388 pesos to $1 USD. Great rate but looks like it will go higher. MEP hit 1,425 today and blue dollar too!
Finance Prof
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WU is trailing behind but probably will catch up. You got a bit better rate than I did but I needed the funds. I got 1344.50. I charged my Visa card today and got 1,318.
Milei and Caputo's attempt to reassure the financial markets that things will be ok isn't working. It's clear dollarization ain't happening anytime soon, taxes have increased when they were supposed to go down, PAIS tax isn't being reduced and people view the peso as being overvalued.
Spend Thrift
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I also sent myself some WU cash today. I thought it would be higher with blue so high.
GlasgowJohn
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Remember that WU rate is more related to the MEP Rate than the Blue Rate
Vero
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Exactly correct. Been interesting watching the sudden price changes and volatility lately.
Finance Prof
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Western Union rate today was 1390.39 to $1 USD. CCL right now is 1317.37 so drop quite a bit by the end of the day today. 
Spend Thrift
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Unfortunately there is a big spread now on Blue dollar and WU rate. I don't have any more cash. I have to send some via my cueva. I sent a WU payment to myself today and only got 1,281.67 to $1 USD. Meanwhile cuevas are paying 1,450 to $1 US now. MEP is 1,310 so back to $100 USD bills being the most valuable here again.
Digital Nomad
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Bummed the MEP and Blue dollar are going down. Means that WU rate will also fall. I sent some money to myself today and the rate was 1,272.25 to $1.
Mother Russia Argentina
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Today's rate was 1285 : $1 US.
Digital Nomad
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Anyone else having issues with sending/receiving Western Union? I tried this morning and the system was down.
Betsy Ross
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I heard there was an outage this morning.
James Bond
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Is anyone else seeing higher rates for WU transfers? I was paying about $5.99 to send $100 but today it jumped up to $13.99 to send $100! And it is showing that it is normally $17.99 so showing a discount. It was never this high before. Anyone else seeing this? Sending to my girlfriend's mum who we have sent to in the past.
Anchor Baby
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Same thing happened to me. Try logging out of your account and then logging back in. I did that and it went down to $5.99 again which is what I pay for sending $100.
Betsy Ross
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Same thing happens to me once in a while. I completely log out of my WU account and try again and it discounts. Try sending it from the list of frequently sent recipients for a quick resend in the same amount and it usually goes back to the lower price.
Also, Moneygram seems like it's back online. It went down for a cybersecurity issue.
MoneyGram goes offline as it investigates cybersecurity problem
Global money transfer service is working to get back online days after detecting a problem and taking its systems down.
Yes Moneygram was out here in Mexico too. I didn't know this was why it didn't work. I used WU but the fee was very high. I will try logging out and seeing if the fee goes down.Same thing happens to me once in a while. I completely log out of my WU account and try again and it discounts. Try sending it from the list of frequently sent recipients for a quick resend in the same amount and it usually goes back to the lower price.
Also, Moneygram seems like it's back online. It went down for a cybersecurity issue.
MoneyGram goes offline as it investigates cybersecurity problem
Global money transfer service is working to get back online days after detecting a problem and taking its systems down.www.yahoo.com
Nasdaq
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Did the rates go up on WU recently? I was going to send myself $200 and the fees were $15.99 to send! Tried dropping it to $100 USD and it was still $10.99 fee! It used to be $5.99 to send $100. Are people running into this same thing? The costs to get money here have really jumped up. I guess it makes sense to go back to cuevas. Last time I used one it was about 4% which beats this high price of WU!
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