Medellin Reports

It won't be long before more press reports appear about guys who tried to game the system.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2638784]Many years ago I worked with a guy who thought the same as you. He had found a way to steal from the company and he didn't see any way that anyone could find out. I don't know how long he got away with it, he started before I worked there. When he did get caught it was through a series of coincidences, all because he lacked the imagination to see how he could be discovered. The beauty of his plan was that it didn't show up on the books, it was impossible for accounting to detect his theft. The flaw was that to me it was, once those coincidences happened, painfully obvious.

Over the 1 year period which he was charged with he had gotten away with just over $20,000. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, although I'm sure he only had to serve 2 years. Not really worth it, in my opinion.

With or without a QR code, authenticating a vax card is ridiculously easy. I expect someone will be exploiting that opportunity soon.

And if anyone has $1 million to get started on on a vax verification business which could easily generate $100 million, I'll happily show you how to do it, once the money is in my account.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Knowledge;2638917]It won't be long before more press reports appear about guys who tried to game the system.[/QUOTE]Apparently it's a felony in the USA to forge a vax card. I'm from California and they have a registry like most other states, so verification at least in Country is easy if actually required. Yet, it's a total joke for International travel without a worldwide verification system in place. No different than for the Yellow Fever shot issued by WHO.

It's just a matter of time until something is put in place. So for the time being, and I know guys that have done it, is they print up a vax card, insert the data required, and they are good to go at least for those from the USA.

A total joke for the time being.

[QUOTE=Surfer500;2638952] Yet, it's a total joke for International travel without a worldwide verification system in place. No different than for the Yellow Fever shot issued by WHO.
[/QUOTE]Could you imagine being denied travel despite having a vax card, just bcos your doctor or his secretary made a database entry error? You might cosnider it fine in your own personal situation, but coming from a developing country, you can not expect the same level of competence.

The world accepts card based evidence for all other vaxxes. I expect they will continue with this one, especially since the data will need to be updated every 6 months per person.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2638784]...
With or without a QR code, authenticating a vax card is ridiculously easy. I expect someone will be exploiting that opportunity soon.

And if anyone has $1 million to get started on on a vax verification business which could easily generate $100 million, I'll happily show you how to do it, once the money is in my account.[/QUOTE]MyChart already has a head start.

LeFeu.

I never posted anything about Colombia, and was never critical of her women in the past, until I actually went to Colombia this month. I only post about places I actually went to and people I actually met. Even among Tijuana's 6 most popular bars, I reported factually their ambiances, shows qualities and quantities and qualities of their girls. They are not all my favorites. Hong Kong club has always come out on top based on those measures. I am not alone to favor Hong Kong, thousands guys pack into it every night. The other bars are not doing anywhere as well. The noobs would walk into the other bars, looking around at the girls for less than 5 minutes and immediately want to go back to HK. I am not biased for Mexican or against Colombian girls. That's just how attractive and fun HK is to the large crowd of mongers.

As you and I were checking out the girls at Pargue Lleras, even you admitted to me that most were over weight, grotesquely out of shape, crudely tattooed, ugly faces, only 1 or 2 were attractive spinners, and we were sitting at the bar looking out at the park, waiting for them to show, but the quality did not improve by midnight when I decided to dump Camilla and went out for a street girl. There was only 1 spinner whom I was mildly interested in and was negotiating a deal with her, but Bay went out and informed me that she had cheated you the night before. So I dropped her.

I came back to LA Monday night, spent Tuesday replacing the stolen phone. Wednesday a wingman wanted to go to Tijuana so we drove down, arriving about 7 PM. The weather was very cold, about 50 F. The poor street girls were shivering in the cold wind, turning purple, their bare legs shaking. Tall Veronica was in front of Azuls, wrapped in many layers of clothes, but her face had turned ashen and she was shaking. One of my wingman really likes her. I really feel sad for these poor girls.

HK was nice, warm, well-ventilated inside, packed with over 200 girls, girls to guys ratio was probably 3 to 1, many new ones trying to make Christmas money, most were not wearing masks, looking nice, clean, pretty, slim, beautiful, smiling, friendly, flirty, attractive, many looked good enough to qualify for international modeling jobs. Many girls were hitting on us for drinks, sex, Christmas presents. The tiny Cesia was there, hitting on my wingman. She's normally very aloof and reticent, so she must have been desperate for business.

Sasha was drinking her beers at the bar as usual, one of the top HK girls 10 years ago, her torso and arms have gotten bigger with age, and she books very few clients now. Skinny Estephanie from GDL, looking like Maria Shriver, was hugging, squeezing me hard, trying to get me to go to the hotel. Sadly very few girls were bought fichas or taken upstairs, most were just hanging around the club looking desperate.

We were drinking, smoking, ogling the beauty and grace and absorbing the youthful sexual charms of over 2 hundred beautiful girls all around us. I felt like, yes, I am back with real beautiful, soft, sweet, sexy girls in the Hong long club, not lost among the ugly, mean, aggressive, beastly thieving freaks in Colombia. It's very hard for any bar in the rest of the world to compete against HK in beautiful girls availability and the fun, excitement factors. Quite a few seasoned international mongers would admit so. One said HK is the best club in the world in front of senor Frogg as we sat drinking rum one night in club Friese in Bogota. That bros should know. He spends most of his time traveling the world to have fun in putas bars.

I reported on various locations and venues in Colombia while I was still on site, so I would not forget the specifics. I actually used very mild language as I know there are guys with their heads all wrapped up in this mythical beautiful Medellin girls bull shit. In truth, almost all Lleras girls were obese, tattooed, pierced ghetto punks strung out on drugs. A bro posted that they might stab you with a knife. I would not be surprised.

Isla girls were way too huge, disproportional, pear-shaped, looking ridiculous like tattooed ghetto freaks. I was shocked to see their huge, freakish bodies. Guys must be very stupid and hard pressed for sex to pay money to fuck those huge pear-shaped creatures.

The women at New Life casa were similarly huge and repulsive. The poor women were not happy walking up the stairs again and again to present themselves to new guys every 5,10 minutes and got rejected for their $10 sessions in bed.

Found a few hot young girls near Iglesia de Vera Cruz at Plaza Botero, but that area is crime-ridden and risky to hang out even in day time; night time it's a wasteland. Any bros want those sweet, pretty young girls' phone numbers for take out, let me know.

For a couple afternoons, I was standing in front of the hotel watching hundreds civie girls walk home from Santa Fe mall, found very few, actually none, attractive enough for romantic pursuit. The myth about Medellin having lots of beautiful women is just bull shit. But I have to admit, I was looking at thousands of women workers going home at the Panasonic plant in Tijuana, almost all were overweight and unattractive. We should limit the discussion to just bar and street girls available for sex.

My opinion remains that guys would be wasting time and money flying to Colombia for girls. Tijuana is a much better option.

I was there at the same time as him, and I am still in Medellin. I even met Captain Solo and had a few beers with him at a bar in parque Lleras in Medellin. My wingman and I also spent some time in Cartagena.

From what I read about Captain solo extensive posting in the Tijuana forum, he has always been biased towards Mexican chicks. He was also always critical of Colombian women, yet I believe this is the first time has visited the country.

[QUOTE=Lefeu;2638709]I was there at the same time as him, and I am still in Medellin. I even met Captain Solo and had a few beers with him at a bar in parque Lleras in Medellin. My wingman and I also spent some time in Cartagena.

From what I read about Captain solo extensive posting in the Tijuana forum, he has always been biased towards Mexican chicks. He was also always critical of Colombian women, yet I believe this is the first time has visited the country.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Knowledge;2638915]I am a hypocrite. I complain about ongoing threads about debit and credit cards that start to read like promotional brochures but here I am prolonging yet another one of them. So, I think most agree there are many credit cards that do not assess foreign transaction fees. Why anyone would not use them for purchases instead of a debit card that does assess the fees is, I suppose, a matter of personal choice or personal finance sophistication. Reeling the discussion back to ATM withdrawals, there are comparable options to the sacrosanct Schwab card. Among several others are debit cards online banks issue associated with checking and / or brokerage accounts. Anyone interest in comparing offers should fire up the search engine of their choice and have at it. The alternative is to follow financial advice available on this site and hope for the best.[/QUOTE]Not in Canada. Using Visa or Mastercard debit cards is 2. 5% - that only applies to a purchase. That is better than using an ATM, but still is high. All Canadian banks charge at least 2. 5% plus other fees, such as a foreign transaction fee, and ATM fees at the end you withdraw the from if that applies. So a typical cost for a cash withdrawal is $5 per withdrawal outside of Canada, US, or sometimes Mexico. Plus 2. 5 or 3. 5 % hit on the exchange rate. Plus an ATM fee where you are, if there is a fee. So on average if I take out $300 Canadian equivalent (in pesos for example) I am around a 5 or 6% cost. And I have not found a cheaper way of doing this.

And to make it clear. There is no Scwab option, etc. Etc.

The only real option is to have shares in Canadian banks and when they make outrageous profits collect the dividends.

[QUOTE=JonnyPokerStar;2638808]There is a service called Remitly which I have found gives the best exchange rates. Go to their website, request the remission, and pick up the cash at Bancolombia.[/QUOTE]Having rented a place in Cartagena, the complex wanted a $5000 deposit as I live out of the country. I had to send some of the money in to my gal, and I first used Western Union. First transfer was fine. Next three were held up. I got sick of it and called and cancelled them. They let me cancel one. It has been four weeks and the money from two transfers is still in limbo.

I have had similar issues with Xoom. Thing is that I know now is that if you ever need a large amount of cash to spread the money over various services: one with WU, one with Remitly ETC.

I signed up with Remitly, sent money, and it went smoothly. I then used Pangea and it went pretty good as well.

I sent a second transfer with both, and both times it was held up, but when I cancelled, the money was back in no time with both, no WU type shit. I waited two days, sent money with Remitly, and it was no problem.

So yeah, I have now had to use four money transfer services, and I agree Remitly is the best. It was the smoothest with the best exchange rate. I also like the number of places you can send the money to. You could send money to Exito or a grocery store or a bank.

I sent $990 yesterday, got charged a $4 fee, and she got 3,828,250. 00 COP. With Western Union today, and the exchange rate is up, it would be 3555265.00 COP.

[QUOTE=Knowledge;2638915]I am a hypocrite. I complain about ongoing threads about debit and credit cards that start to read like promotional brochures but here I am prolonging yet another one of them. So, I think most agree there are many credit cards that do not assess foreign transaction fees. Why anyone would not use them for purchases instead of a debit card that does assess the fees is, I suppose, a matter of personal choice or personal finance sophistication. Reeling the discussion back to ATM withdrawals, there are comparable options to the sacrosanct Schwab card. Among several others are debit cards online banks issue associated with checking and / or brokerage accounts. Anyone interest in comparing offers should fire up the search engine of their choice and have at it. The alternative is to follow financial advice available on this site and hope for the best.[/QUOTE]There are also many credit unions which offer similar benefits. I agree search engines are your friend.

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;2638990]My opinion remains that guys would be wasting time and money flying to Colombia for girls. Tijuana is a much better option..[/QUOTE]Well, some things that others should know about Tijuana.

Such that the street girls can cost more than double then their Colombian street counterparts, with a la carte pricing, with the base price only including their pants off only, two positions, twenty minutes, lots of rules, and a guaranteed knock on the door when the time is up.

And also that the Hong Girls can be upwards of $ 100 USD, and less than an hour of time.

I used to live at Leyva on the weekends, and was a Tijuana regular up until about ten years ago. It used to be one heck of a mongering destination, and I loved going there until I discovered Colombia.

However, according to my buddies that are there every week, it has only gotten worse and worse every year in terms of street action, and as usual the cops are total assholes.

So stating that Tijuana is a better option really depends on how someone rolls, so for guys that like very short sessions, it might be a perfect fit, especially for guys living in Southern California, however Tijuana does not offer multiple mongering venues like Medellin.

Your actually the first poster I've ever heard making a recommendation of Tijuana over Medellin.

Regardless, your posts in Medellin were quite entertaining to say the least, and it sounds like you had a good time.

And I do miss the food in Tijuana, so hands down, Tijuana has Medellin beat in that department.

Were you referring to Canadian credit cards or debit cards? You wrote "debit cards". In either case it's a pity about the fees. I suppose it's an advantage that they are functional in Cuba. I spent a few years in Toronto. I liked everything except the winter weather, the OPP, and the surly Russian provider I used to deal with there.

[QUOTE=Zeos1;2639031]Not in Canada. Using Visa or Mastercard debit cards is 2. 5% - that only applies to a purchase. That is better than using an ATM, but still is high. All Canadian banks charge at least 2. 5% plus other fees, such as a foreign transaction fee, and ATM fees at the end you withdraw the from if that applies. So a typical cost for a cash withdrawal is $5 per withdrawal outside of Canada, US, or sometimes Mexico. Plus 2. 5 or 3. 5 % hit on the exchange rate. Plus an ATM fee where you are, if there is a fee. So on average if I take out $300 Canadian equivalent (in pesos for example) I am around a 5 or 6% cost. And I have not found a cheaper way of doing this.

And to make it clear. There is no Scwab option, etc. Etc..[/QUOTE]

Yes, one of the cards I use is issued by a credit union. I like to keep accounts with several types of issuers so I'm not inconvenienced by withdrawal limits or lost / damaged / stolen card situations.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2639072]There are also many credit unions which offer similar benefits. I agree search engines are your friend.[/QUOTE]

Am I misinterpreting or are you basing your assessment on Parque LLeras and Centro? I have not been to Tijuana is at least ten years so I can't make an assessment other than to say I'm OK here. Even without taking into account the cost premium I agree with you that the talent in Parque Lleras is generally underwhelming. It bears repeating that some of the talent in Parque Lleras is also the talent in Plaza Botero.

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;2638990]LeFeu.

I never posted anything about Colombia, and was never critical of her women in the past, until I actually went to Colombia this month. I only post about places I actually went to and people I actually met. Even among Tijuana's 6 most popular bars, I reported factually their ambiances, shows qualities and quantities and qualities of their girls. They are not all my favorites. Hong Kong club has always come out on top based on those measures. I am not alone to favor Hong Kong, thousands guys pack into it every night. The other bars are not doing anywhere as well. The noobs would walk into the other bars, looking around at the girls for less than 5 minutes and immediately want to go back to HK. I am not biased for Mexican or against Colombian girls. That's just how attractive and fun HK is to the large crowd of mongers.

As you and I were checking out the girls at Pargue Lleras, even you admitted to me that most were over weight, grotesquely out of shape, crudely tattooed, ugly faces, only 1 or 2 were attractive spinners, and we were sitting at the bar looking out at the park, waiting for them to show, but the quality did not improve by midnight when I decided to dump Camilla and went out for a street girl. There was only 1 spinner whom I was mildly interested in and was negotiating a deal with her, but Bay went out and informed me that she had cheated you the night before. So I dropped her...[/QUOTE]

LaIsla. Never cared for it. Overprices and chicas not my type. Colombianos and certain gringos like the pair shape and the silicone.

Don't look for civilian girls in Santa Fe. Go to the barrios is you dare.

I wish more guys would feel like they are wasting there time and stay the fuck out of Medellin. I want my city back. Tired of weekend warriors who overpay and give all of us a bad name (not saying you are a weekend warrior, but there are plenty of them).

[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;2638990]LeFeu.

Isla girls were way too huge, disproportional, pear-shaped, looking ridiculous like tattooed ghetto freaks. I was shocked to see their huge, freakish bodies. Guys must be very stupid and hard pressed for sex to pay money to fuck those huge pear-shaped creatures.

For a couple afternoons, I was standing in front of the hotel watching hundreds civie girls walk home from Santa Fe mall, found very few, actually none, attractive enough for romantic pursuit. The myth about Medellin having lots of beautiful women is just bull shit. But I have to admit, I was looking at thousands of women workers going home at the Panasonic plant in Tijuana, almost all were overweight and unattractive. We should limit the discussion to just bar and street girls available for sex.

My opinion remains that guys would be wasting time and money flying to Colombia for girls. Tijuana is a much better option.
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As an FYI, I arrived today. I have a vax card from March which is handwritten on a CDC vax card. The airline and migracion looked at it without issue. I have my CVS 3rd vaccination proof in my e-mail on my phone, just in case, but I did not need it.

I heard a concerning story from a tourist last night. He was picked up from the airport on Thursday by an Uber and right before arriving to Messiah hostel in Poblado a motorcycle rear-ended the Uber and the driver pulled over. One of the men on the motorcycle put a gun to his head and stole his belongings including his passport, he said that the Uber driver was also robbed and the incident was reported to the police.