Anyone else using this machine. Last year I was able to take out 10,000 pesos each withdrawl and do it 4 times for a total of 40,000 pesos. I have been twice this year and only allowed 5,000 pesos at a time for a total of 20,000 pesos
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Scotia bank machine in Cabarete
I use the Scotia Bank machines in Cabarete exclusively. Max 10,000 pesos, daily limits are set by cardholders bank.
The banks at any time can change the limits of their ATM withdrawals. The reasons could be for security to prevent thieves from unloading accounts, to limit the amounts to allow more clients in line the ability to access some cash. It also could be the client's own financial institution doing the limiting. Going to an ATM in the DR is crap game.
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PJT
Would the effect on this limiting measure not be the exact opposite? If you limit the amount you can withdraw less, everyone can withdraw what they need in one transaction. If you limit it, just like the OP described, you need multiple transactions in the worst case scenario, taking much longer obviously than just one transaction.
You may be right on the theft aspect, but I believe the principal reason would be the banks wanting more fees. Those you get per transaction.
My first guess would be if you cut the limit in half, the bank can collect double the fees since the bank would get double the transactions.
My system is to deposit a surplus on my credit card, then go to a teller at Santa Cruz where you can get up to 100,000 pesos advance from the card. No real idea about the fees or the exchange rate, but I avoid getting my card cloned and also avoid Cabarete.
Not sure what the max limit is, but I can get 20,000 pesos at a BSC ATM with my BSC card. I rarely need more pesos than that at one time. I'm not going to waste my time taking out 2000 pesos at a time at other bank ATMs. I think the banks want to try to make sure that there's enough money in the machine for their clients.
I was at this one a week ago, I was chatting with the folks queuing for the machine nearest to the door saying the other one was not allowing more than 5k/10k etc. I tried the other one but it did not have 2000 peso notes so I waited and took out 22000. This limit seems to be set by the card issuing bank.
I like ScotiaBank ATMs as they let me choose the denominations. I will probably try to open an account next time I go there
I like ScotiaBank ATMs as they let me choose the denominations. I will probably try to open an account next time I go there
Forgot to add, I have regularly withdrawn 20k from Scotia Bank machines in their branches (Cabarete, Santiago, Puerto Plata) with no fees and if you use certain UK banks you get the Mastercard exchange rate and no fees
I thought the no fees was only for Scotia Bank card holders, local or from Canada etc. , it's interesting to hear also for UK banks, which bank do you have...?
Starling and Chase UK. Starling has a £300 per day limit and Chase allows upto £500 per day - both apps provide a converter to see how much you will get charged.
Monzo is ok for purchases but they have fees for cash withdrawals over certain limits depending on EEA or non-EEA regions and for me, Starling & Chase make it very simple and bother-free to use them and between both, I can do get almost 800 quid each day.
Scotiabank ATMs do show the 'fees from 65 to 300 DOP may be charged' message for me but they never charge it. To be honest, the first time I tried, I was not worried because I prefer pulling out 20k in one go and get on with my day and it was a nice surprise to see that I got a much better exchange rate too.
From my experience, the limit is set by the bank you're withdrawing money from. With my BSC and BHD card, I can only withdraw 2000 pesos at a time from Popular and Banreservas. Scotia bank will give me 5000. With a US debit card, BSC will only give me 4000, but I can get 20,000 with my BSC card. Scotia gave me 10,000 on my US debit card. Those are one-time withdrawal numbers. I don't know what the max is if you keep trying gain and gin(?). With my US debit card, I can go into the bank and get 100,000.
Not correct. If this was true, the limit would not be ATM specific and just in the DR... I have never had limits on my foreign cards.
The same card, Scotiabank POP vs. La Nacional POP, the first lets withdraw 10k, the second 15 minutes later 30k, on a single transaction. My card issuer would not be familiar with either of those banks, so they would not have a reason to differentiate the limit.
I think some DR banks have ATM limits but for me specifically, Scotiabank seems to only have the limit set by my UK banks.
As stated above, I had no problems withdrawing 22k at Scotiabank with my Starling card and 20k with the Chase one.
The Chase UK card with a £500 per day cash withdrawal limit so I will try 36000 DOP next time I am there and report back but going to be a few months though
As stated above, I had no problems withdrawing 22k at Scotiabank with my Starling card and 20k with the Chase one.
The Chase UK card with a £500 per day cash withdrawal limit so I will try 36000 DOP next time I am there and report back but going to be a few months though
Above you mentioned a day-limit on multiple occasions and only once referenced to "in one go", which I would assume means a transaction, so are you talking about limits per day or per transaction. I'm only referring to limit per one transaction/withdrawal. Also what I quoted on this post, this 500 GBP limit really has nothing to do with the ATM (if you try to exceed that, obviously the ATM does not allow that but as mandated by your bank, not by the ATM), that's only between you and your card issuing bank.
Let me clarify, for avoidance of all doubt:
I was able to pull out 22k per transaction in Scotiabank ATMs in Cabarete, Santiago and Puerto Plata. I did this on both my cards (so 44k in 2 transactions, on 3 separate days i.e. 22k x 2 transactions x 3 days) in Cabarete, 22k in one transaction on one card in Santiago (Juan Pablo Duarte) and in Puerto Plata (opp to the super market). I have not had a go at La Nacional in POP
So for me, the transaction limit and daily limit were the same for one card and the other one had a higher daily limit but I did not test that but will do the next time I am there, out of curiosity.
While I was withdrawing cash in Cabarete, other expats were queueing up for the machine closer to the door as it seemed to give out 10k for them whilst the other was giving out 5k (they said). I also queued with them because the machine closer to the door had 2k notes, which I wanted as it was becoming bulky to stuff 44k in 1k and 200 peso notes in my pockets.
Slightly off-topic: DR ATM magic struck me on the one day I tried pulling cash in Sosua for breakfast, the Popular ATM in the big Playero did not have cash and the one next to Sosua Inn did not even accept the card i.e. the card physically wouldnt go into any of the 3 machines there (was 8 AMish on a Sunday). <shrug/>
Thank you for the clarification. I suppose either things have then changed with Scotia or for some reason it was with my particular card the 10k limit at the time for Scotia. I wonder why though, as stated previously, went to Nacional and was able to withdraw 30k in one go...
This is a good example of YMMV. For me Scotiabank works due to the no-fee thing, I get the same exchange rate at any other ATM in DR, except the withdrawal fee effs it up so I look for Scotiabank ATMs. Only sad thing is their ATMs are not numerous on the North coast.
From time to time ,I have experimented the same issue where the daily limit was lower than the usual.
My guess is the bank setup a temporary lower amount maybe because lack of bills in order to serve more customers or possibly for security reasons.
A day later ,the limit was back to normal.
However , every time that is was happening, it was at the cash machine at La Sirena/Super pola in Sosua.
Never had an issue in Cabarete.
In other words ,try again tomorrow if you experiment the same thing.
An other way also to check ,it' s to ask an other customer if he is experimenting the same thing as you at the time it happened.
Peace.
My guess is the bank setup a temporary lower amount maybe because lack of bills in order to serve more customers or possibly for security reasons.
A day later ,the limit was back to normal.
However , every time that is was happening, it was at the cash machine at La Sirena/Super pola in Sosua.
Never had an issue in Cabarete.
In other words ,try again tomorrow if you experiment the same thing.
An other way also to check ,it' s to ask an other customer if he is experimenting the same thing as you at the time it happened.
Peace.