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Atm Card that doesn’t charge a fee for International Withdrawals?

Author: thailandretire  |  Category: americans in thailand, banking services in thailand, canadians in thailand, expatriate in thailand, expatriates in thailand, foreigners in thailand, retire to thailand
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Negeshia asked:

I am retired and live in Thailand. My bank in the USA where all my income is direct deposit is Citizens Bank. When I started doing business with them they had all these free services, and now all these free service like free ATM withdrawals, free wire transfers are all gone. I am tired of paying 3% of my money to the bank when I make a international withdrawal here. Any one knows of a Bank in the USA that doesn’t charge international fees for ATM withdrawal.

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3 Responses to “Atm Card that doesn’t charge a fee for International Withdrawals?”

  1. Ryan Says:
    March 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Washington Mutual did not charge me for fees of using ATM’s abroad, I travelled throughout SE Asia, africa, europe. However, you are still responsible for the fees from the bank you withdraw from abroad.

  2. negeshia Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 1:59 am

    You could try Citibank or Bangkok Bank as they have branches in both Thailand and the US. I heard Bank of America also has branches but I’m really not sure.

    One thing you might try is setting up an account with paypal (I’ve been using them for 5years for ebay payments but they say you can send money to Thailand banks They also have a Master card debit card or credit card or some way to send money to your mobile phone.

    Also I noticed that the American Express card has a very good exchange rate (Last week near 33 to the dollar), they have a card with no fees and it gives you bonus points redeemable for trips and merchandise many even in Thailand. If you pay it off every month no fees and its good at Tesco and Big C. My bank lets me make the credit card payment on line so its very easy.

    Here’s an ATM locater for Master Card or Visa

  3. billp Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Charles Schwab High Yield Investor Checking accounts make no charge for ATM use worldwide.

    “No ATM fees. We reimburse any ATM fee you are charged— worldwide”

    I don’t know if that includes the new 15ß0 baht fee being charged by the Thai banks.

    http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/home/account_types/brokerage/schwab_one_with_ic.html

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