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

By: billp

billp — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:59:51 +0000

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

By: negeshia

negeshia — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:59:34 +0000

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:25:33 +0000

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.