Originally Posted by JohnAx
Did you really mean that? It's still not too difficult to find banks who don't surcharge above the Visa/MC 1%, and the ones who are so kind to their customers on that matter turn out to be very nice to deal with on most other issues as well. Two choices are AFBA and CapitalOne.
We are certainly looking into cheaper conversion charges but lots of movement in the field at the moment. Have you used a US bank-issued ATM card overseas recently?