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Originally Posted by Michael O
The first line in my response were the answer to his question.
Let me repeat if for you:
VISA sets the exchange rate we have nothing to do with it.
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Bullshit!
Indeed VISA sets the exchange rate but it doesnt mean that Epassporte is using the Visa set exchange rate.
I noticed that Epassporte rips you off from the first atm withdrawal i did few years ago.
I have also made a test like 2 month ago :
pulled a fixed amount of local currency from a local normal bank using 3 different cards : BOA check Card, Etrade Visa Platinum, Epassporte.
I have withdrawal the same ammount from all 3 cards, all within about 1 minute from each other and after few days (after the transaction settled) i looked over my accounts to see how much i have been debited :
Best one by far was the E*trade Visa Platinum Card (debit) - the amount was 99.8% the same as on XE, i not sure how they do it to be so good
Second one was BOA Check card...
The worst one by far was the Epassporte Visa card..it was like 20$ more pulled from the account then the Etrade card for an ammount of local curenty equivalent of 500$.
So definitely Epassporte is a ripoff in terms of currency exchange.
