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Old Jun 27, 2013, 3:10 am
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Originally Posted by nldogbert
I think what is meant here is that the exchange rate/fee used by AMEX is much higher compared to MC/Visa. This is also my experience when paying for currency outside of the Euro. [I tried an experiment where I paid at the same restaurant at the same time but split the bill in two different payments, MC was about 0.8% lower compared to Amex]
No, that's not what I meant. I meant the fee or commission. Since I was talking about the Dutch card, the Wisselkoers commissie.

For instance, looking back to a time I used the card overseas, on a AU$798 charge I see a €13,08 commission charge from Amex NL. Normally i use another Amex that doesn't have this fee, but on that occasion I didn't have it in my pocket.
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