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Article #29Re: Warning about American Express
From: Jim Davidson
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:01
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:01
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craigm@earthling.net (Craig Macbride) writes: > American Express is not anyone's friend, as far as I can tell. They > basically charge extra for everything and give nothing for it, except the > name. They charge 1.5% fee on foreign exchange (at least, in Australia they > do on their credit card), versus 0.5%-1.0% that most other cards charge. Not true. Other *cards* may not charge an extra fee, but many of the *banks* that issue those cards do. For example, Citibank slaps an extra fee (I think it's 2%) on foreign transactions for most of its credit cards. -- Jim Davidson jdavidson @ acm.org
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