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PaulW
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We have 3 different bank ATMs here in San Felipe. No luck with Bancomer but the other two work with my Wells Fargo card, but with not much Pesos. Now
I find my wire transfer from Wells Fargo to Bancomer is not happening.
Guess I need to keep trying at Bancomer ATM??
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AKgringo
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Is this just a Baja problem, or is it happening on the mainland side of the gulf?
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"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Hook
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Quote: Originally posted by Gulliver  | One of the hardest things for me to adapt to here has been this unpredictability. It shows up in so many things.
Inexplicable power interruptions. Seldom being able to find the same things in the same store from day to day. These problems with ATMs. The list goes
on and on.
I'm told it is a problem in much of the world and that growing up north of the border or in much of Europe gives us false expectations.
I fall back on the explanation which is not an explanation but relaxes me just a bit and sometimes makes me smile. The single word, "Random".
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This is easily the biggest headache I have, living down here. So little is predictable, when you want to get something done.
Living in the US and/or Canada does give you Great Expectations. Those turn to "realistic" expectations, down here.
More than anything, I blame poor and expensive postal and trucking systems; probably combined with poor roads and behind-the-scenes mordida.
Goods just dont move smoothly down here. One is forced to deal with a very limited number of distributors, in relation to the US. Little competition
allows them to remain inefficient.
Reducing competition has been the name of the game in Mexico for ages. We'll see if that changes, any time soon.
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Hook
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It's hard to tell. So many temperamental ATM machines. Iffy phone lines, at times, that would prevent the ATM network from functioning. Machines run
out of money. Chipped cards or no chipped cards. So many variables.
I dont use Bancomer down here. I've just heard so many bad things about that entire organization (trusts, insurance, banking) that I avoid it. But I
understand when it is the only game in town. I only use CI Banco, Santander and Banamex. I havent been declined in several years now.
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Lee
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Got 8000p yesterday at Bancomer in Cabo. Problems must be regional?
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What I say before any important decision.
F*ck it.
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Sweetwater
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Thanks for the ongoing information, we're 2 weeks away from Gonzaga Bay and some better weather than the fugly winter here.
Everbody\'s preachin\' at me that we all wanna git to heaven, trouble is, nobody wants to die to git there.-BB King
Reality is what does not go away when you stop believing in it. -Philip K Dick
Nothing is worse than active ignorance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749-1832, German writer, artist and politician)
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I\'ve never tried before. - Mae West
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.
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mjs
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No issues in San Felipe yesterday
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