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Subject: Re: San Jose airport currency exchange Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 19:29:40 EST

On 23 Jan 2004 18:18:41 GMT, treemoss2@aol.com (Treemoss2) wrote:

/.../
>2) credit card withdrawals are not the same as your ATM. You could prepay a
>certain amount into your credit card account and then you would not get the
>fees.
/.../

Are you sure of that? I asked my GM card (Mastercard) if I could make a
big prepayment and then get cash advances later during my travel, avoiding
interest. I was told that regardless how much one has overpaid in advance
they start charging interest on cash advances the moment they are taken.


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Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), Florida