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Subject: Re: Which credit card does not charge a "Foreign transaction fee"? Posted on: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:16:10 +0000 (UTC)

Greg Rozelle wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2006 20:46:13 -0700, "Kompu Kid" wrote:
>
> >I discovered when I got back from my European trip that Washington
> >Mutual now tacks on a 1% charge for payments made with its Mastercard
> >debit card.
> >
> >It is not much but I would prefer to pay as liitle as possible.
> >
> >Which credit 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

I don't know and too late to test for me.

I wonder if anyone else has done that.

Deguza