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RE: What To Do When Your Phone Gets Lost Or Stolen (While Living) Abroad
You could probably get a used or even new phone for pretty cheap. I think you should still be able to sign into Google and get your apps back. You could also call AT&T.
I called AT&T and said it was stolen. I'm looking for a new one, they're actually more expensive in Vietnam than in the US. But I HOPE you're right about google authenticator because so far, I'm on the struggle bus and it terrifies me!
I'll update on what happens!
Here in Vzla you can get phones for cheaper if you buy from local sites like https://mercadolibre.com.ve
People sell at USD value, so if it costs $100, they charge you for the phone just around $100 in bolivars, but they can charge a bit more. However, you can usually bargain with them because it's really hard to sell when everybody is so poor.
And additionally, when the bolivar gets devaluated a lot, they usually lag a bit in getting the price back up, so if you manage to get people to sell during a dollar price hike, you can get better prices.
oooo mercadolibre jaja is it weird that I've shopped on there? I know a local site here is lazada.vn but I should maybe ask a local if they know of something better. I've heard sketch stories of people not receiving packages from there because some sellers are shady.
Not just the vn version, but all of lazada as a whole (they have thai and indonesian versions also).
Yeah, you have to be extra careful to use the proper places where the locals get their stuff, and to make sure that you get the info from locals who don't usually get scammed themselves. :P
In Mercadolibre, you usually do a little check on people's reputation on the site and you usually have to go get what you purchased on site by yourself, since the mailing system is not that trustable either.
lol oh, do you have those weird addresses like "blue house next to the ice cream shop" type addresses?
Kinda, all the streets and houses have names instead of numbers, so you go like
Calle El Roble, Casa El Angelito, Urbanización Santa Mónica, Caracas, Distrito Federal
Then you have people wandering all around Santa Mónica asking where the hell is a street named El Roble, and when, finally, they find it, there are two houses called El Angelito, but the right one doesn't have the name out so they deliver it to the wrong one.
But that's not the main problem but the fact that there are a big big lot of scams here, and not only that, but accidents, theft and for international deliveries, the ones that steal from the packages are the Custom guards, if even they let you bring the packages without bribing them.
that is no longer possible, because now they charge everything in dollars, in fact the websites now place the prices directly in dollars, for example https://www.melopo.com and the same mercadolibre if you see in the comments they are all prices in dollars