Chad ([info]cannibal) wrote,
@ 2008-05-29 00:09:00
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Credit card foreign exchange refund deadline
May 30th is the last day to submit refund forms at https://www.ccfsettlement.com/claim/ for the class action lawsuit about MC/Visa/Diners charging ridiculous fees for foreign transactions. You don't have to know your refund ID, but it helps.

Option 1 is the no-brainer, you get $25.

Option 2 gets you a minimum of $25, or up to 1% of the average that people spend based on number of days you were outside the US from 1996-2006.

Option 3 gets you up to 3% (the actual fee your credit card company charged) but you have give credit card numbers and an estimate of how much you spent each year.

There are only a few cards that don't charge the fee nowadays... see Credit/Debit/ATM Cards and Foreign Exchange on flyerguide or the best credit card thread at fatwallet for cards with the lowest fees and highest cash back.


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[info]encorecrazay
2008-05-29 02:22 pm UTC (link)
Glad you posted thid.

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[info]kevinnickerson
2008-05-29 03:11 pm UTC (link)
Somehow I had missed the entire issue. Reading about in the flyerguide wiki though it seems likely that I've missed it because I'm a CapitalOne user and never got hit with a fee.

I'll have to watch this though with our trip next month and see what cards everyone else is using.

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did mine!
[info]mariegraham
2008-05-30 03:46 pm UTC (link)
I did mine! Wish I had gone with option 3, but 2 was the most organized I could get. Hopefully I used the right cards with the right amounts. Thanks for posting the info on the best card to use abroad; I'll check it out before I go anywhere.

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