Originally Posted by
sbedelman
Yes.
I just did this one a trip to Thailand right in the airport. The currency exchange booth was a bank and they were displaying the Visa/MC logo so I asked to do a cash advance. Two minutes later I had US $1000 equivalent in Baht.
Fidelity's mySmartCash ATM card rep told me, to bypass the low daily limit of $500 a day ATM withdrawal, is to go to the bank to ask for a cash advance. The caveat is, the cash advance is subj to 1% network fee while the ATM withdrawal has no such fee.
I thought the ATM withdrawals are also subj to the 1% network fee.