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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 4:57 am
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Originally Posted by moondog
Recently, I've been migrating her over to buying dollar coins with her credit card. Buying those gets her very close to the spot rate plus JL miles. Do you happen to have any CCs in Saudi Arabia that don't charge premiums for foreign purchases?
That makes such an incredible amount of sense... I need to get GBPs moved over to the US and this would be perfect! Even after following the whole dollar coins for miles thing I never thought of using it to convert currencies. Wire transfer rates for some reason aren't nearly as good as credit card rates...

Thanks for the idea!
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