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Subject: Re: Which credi card does not charge a "Foreign transaction fee"? Posted on: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:01:14 -0500

I have an American Express Gold Card and I don't remember ever being charged
an exchange rate.

"Greg Rozelle" wrote in message
news:ejNvg.70612$fb2.58441@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
> On 19 Jul 2006 20:36:54 -0700, "Kompu Kid" wrote:
>
>>I discovered when I got back from my European trip that Washington
>>Mutual now tacks on a 1% charge for ppayments made with its Mastercard
>>debit card.
>>
>>It is not much but I would prefer to pay as liitle as possible.
>>
>>Which credi card does not charge a fee of foreign transactions these
>>days?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Deguza
>
>
> I wander if you ran the card as a debit (Pin purchase) would you still
> get charge the 1% fee? I think you would need to push the cheque
> button at the merchant to do this. You might need to have this bank
> to activated this feature outside of the US
>
> I think the charge if any would depend on what network(S) you card
> would go through.
>
>
>
> Greg Rozelle