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Old Sep 3, 2014 | 10:45 am
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Originally Posted by zyxlsy
I'm thinking Visa and MC give a reasonable conversion rate, and earn a reasonable 1% on top of that.

Let's be honest here, no one can convert currencies for free, right? If you go to a bank to convert, it's gonna be much higher than 1%.

And, some CCs are eating up that 1%, so we have the best deal in oversee spending.
1% is reasonable, but DCC's markup of the typical 3-5% is not.
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