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Old Nov 8, 2011, 7:15 pm
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yscleo
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
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When travelling, Amex cards are bad for foreign conversions. They first convert to USD, then to Cad. So you get hit with bad conversion rates twice, and the 2.5%.

In that sense, all non-Amex cards are better.
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