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Old 6th September 2007, 01:49 AM
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Re: Best card for travelling overseas?
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Originally Posted by serfty
With wizard, there are no fees. You get a commercial exchange rate which works out (IIRC) about ½% worse than the XE.com quotes.

Note that there are none of those "currency conversion" fees charged.

More here: http://www.frequentflyer.com.au/comm...onal-7865.html (Wizard Clear Advantage "free international transactions")

Earth may be similar ...
On the Earth+ card there are no Westpac fees, though there are the fees charged by Mastercard. These are Mastercard Issuer Cross Border Assessment - 0.8% and MasterCard Currency Conversion Assessment - 0.2%.
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