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Old 11-15-2017, 03:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Gus
It is very difficult to order items in South America, and from Argentina in particular. It has nothing to do with not speaking Spanish. The Argentine government has taken big steps to try to limit foreign transactions (see https://qz.com/121829/this-is-the-l...reign-currency/ )

For that reason you can't use Paypal. And unless you can contact a company directly, you can't use your U.S. credit card online for Argentine (or most other South American) purchases. To use your credit card online in South America you also have to include your national ID number, (DNI) which as a foreigner you don't have.

There is a South American PayPal pseudo-equivalent called Mercado Pago but, again, you can't register a U.S. credit card with them because of the lack of a DNI number. Extremely frustrating.

For a time there were folks available on eBay under the title "I'll buy your items in Argentina" who would add a 20% surcharge, but I haven't seen any of them for a while.

I have attempted to contact SkyTec several times without success. If any of you get through to them I'd love to know how.

Steve
Well...cash, while it has some risk, should be a form of payment that SkyTec would accept. It's too bad that Argentina is doing that, but their monetary policy has long been..."interesting." I don't doubt you, but I know of an Argentinian winery that is making a lot of money selling their wines in the U.S. (their owner was interviewed on a California-based wine & spirits radio talk show, "The Tasting Room with Tom Leykis," that until recently ran on one of my local stations on Saturday evenings). He didn't mention any international sales barriers, but maybe the Argentinian government doesn't apply its restrictions to this category of products?
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