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a couple random questions about my upcoming visit to London
Tim wrote on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:34:30 +0200:
ask before sending e-mail wrote: my credit union is charging me 1/3 of what my commercial bank is charging for conversion fees, so i think i am settled on that ATM card. however, it's on the ``Cirrus'' and ``Accel/Exchange'' networks (as evidenced by the logos on back). an informal survey seems to suggest that those networks are less popular (here in the U.S. at least) as the ``Plus'' and ``Star'' networks. Cirrus is the only name mentioned I recognise, do your cards have pin codes in chips on the card, euro cards do now. mastercard, maestro, visa, link and cirrus are the logos on my UK cards For Germany and Austria you might want one that says "Maestro" somewhere on it. This is interesting! I don't believe my regular US ATM card has any embedded chip for a PIN code. I certainly have to type it in at the machine. I can get other ATM cards, like at my credit union, and some have lower foreign exchange fees. Do people know of US banks issuing cards with embedded chips? Another question could be how to search for such cards on the Web? -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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