payment options for RTW
Jan 15, 2007 | 8:37 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SJU
Posts: 1,542
payment options for RTW
I'm about to ticket an AONE4 in MRU but was wondering what forms of payment they take.
I only have one credit card that has enough of a limit for the purchase but they take a 3% foreign transaction fee. My cap one (with no fee) is only 4500 and they couldn't raise it.
Can I wire the money in US dollars to MRU?
I only have one credit card that has enough of a limit for the purchase but they take a 3% foreign transaction fee. My cap one (with no fee) is only 4500 and they couldn't raise it.
Can I wire the money in US dollars to MRU?
Jan 15, 2007 | 9:31 pm
#2
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: None any more
Posts: 11,017
Can you not pay money into your credit card and leave it with a positive balance? That's what I do when I need to charge a sum that would otherwise take me over my credit limit.
But that's on a HK-based card - not sure if it's possible on US cards.
But that's on a HK-based card - not sure if it's possible on US cards.
Jan 15, 2007 | 10:07 pm
#3
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: LAX
Posts: 3,641
I'm about to ticket an AONE4 in MRU but was wondering what forms of payment they take.
I only have one credit card that has enough of a limit for the purchase but they take a 3% foreign transaction fee. My cap one (with no fee) is only 4500 and they couldn't raise it.
Can I wire the money in US dollars to MRU?
I only have one credit card that has enough of a limit for the purchase but they take a 3% foreign transaction fee. My cap one (with no fee) is only 4500 and they couldn't raise it.
Can I wire the money in US dollars to MRU?
Jan 15, 2007 | 10:25 pm
#4
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SJU
Posts: 1,542
Some cards allow a positive balance but I called cap one and they said that my purchase would be declined even if I had positive balance.
Cap one absorbs the 1% fee by the way.
If they can split onto two cards that may work out.
Cap one absorbs the 1% fee by the way.
If they can split onto two cards that may work out.
Jan 16, 2007 | 12:22 am
#5
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: New York, NY
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 61
Problem with Citibank AA advantage card
I charged an amount of 254257 MUR on Dec 4th on to the Citi AA advantage card that BA said would be around $7696 but the amount that actually appeared was $7932. Citi then told me that the 3% charge was built into the amount. But when the statement was generated at the end of the month Citi charged a separate line item of $250 as a foreign trans fee. Now they say that the $7932 was the amount that BA charged but BA says they have no additional fees. I am still disputing this matter and it seems a case of double counting.
Jan 16, 2007 | 1:59 pm
#7
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Programs: AA 4MM EXP; Starwood Lifetime Plt
Posts: 2,498
I know over-paying doesn't increase the amount that can be charged, at least for CaptitalOne in US dollars. I tried that trick purposely to pay for two tickets issued by AA in Doha, but I wound up having to use another card for the extra amount above the original credit limit.
Last edited by ajnaro; Jan 16, 2007 at 2:09 pm Reason: typing errors