Foreign transaction fees with AAdvantage Visa?
May 4, 2011, 12:36 pm
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May 4, 2011, 12:39 pm
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People have reported testing. I've purchased on my Amex Plat online. Amex shows it as a foreign transaction. I know how much I agreed to pay in euros. I look up the conversion on Yahoo finance and other currency rates online. It's almost spot on. Unless the foreign transaction fee is -0.2%, then it's probably close to the right thing. Yes, the dollar amount charged was less than what I expected by a bit.
I haven't been as precise because it's hard to know when the merchant actually posts, and then you have to look at the currency rate at that moment. You could take lots of rates as time passes, and then go back and look at the conversion.
I haven't been as precise because it's hard to know when the merchant actually posts, and then you have to look at the currency rate at that moment. You could take lots of rates as time passes, and then go back and look at the conversion.
May 4, 2011, 12:44 pm
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Discussion of class action settlement from 2007:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...sion-fees.html
Here is a complaint about the hidden 3% foreign transaction fees on the Citi AAdvantage card from 2004:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...gn-charge.html
...and here is a complaint about Chase marking up the network fee from 2000:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...surcharge.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...sion-fees.html
Here is a complaint about the hidden 3% foreign transaction fees on the Citi AAdvantage card from 2004:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...gn-charge.html
...and here is a complaint about Chase marking up the network fee from 2000:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...surcharge.html
Last edited by mia; May 5, 2011 at 7:24 am
May 4, 2011, 12:46 pm
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Discussion of class action settlement from 2007:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...sion-fees.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...sion-fees.html
May 5, 2011, 3:50 am
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Bonus is 5000 RDM "anniversary gift" per year, which imho pays for the fee.
Also up to 5000 EQM miles per year for purchases on united.com (1 EQM / $1 spent)
Not sure if there should be a difference in terms of foreign transaction fees..
May 5, 2011, 7:32 am
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https://www.thatsaplus.com/MPSelect3...AFW_5TL_120110
- VISA Signature, Annual fee $60, Foreign transaction fee = 3%
- Select VISA, Annual fee $95, Foreign transaction fee = 3%
- Club VISA, Annual eee $375, Foreign transaction fee = None
- Platinum Business, Annual fee $75, Foreign transaction fee = 3%
May 8, 2011, 12:46 am
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Chase has only officially removed the foreign transaction fee for one UA card. See the chart here:
https://www.thatsaplus.com/MPSelect3...AFW_5TL_120110
https://www.thatsaplus.com/MPSelect3...AFW_5TL_120110
- VISA Signature, Annual fee $60, Foreign transaction fee = 3%
- Select VISA, Annual fee $95, Foreign transaction fee = 3%
- Club VISA, Annual eee $375, Foreign transaction fee = None
- Platinum Business, Annual fee $75, Foreign transaction fee = 3%
Now I need to wait for my BA and Amex Plat cards to come in the mail.. not to mention the 100,000 miles + 50,000 points
May 8, 2011, 6:13 am
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Most of it at the ailrines and hotels that Chase has cards for. Though in many cases it's so far only on one specific card for each, even when an airline or a hotel has mutliple kinds of cards.