A question about foreign ATMs

[athena_ny 1]

With Washington Mutual (MC Debit) there is a 1% foreign transaction fee. In Colombia I tried several banks and none charged me any ATM fees. Lets hope that stays the same. I can't remember Peru though.

I found that if you go to the cajero GlobalNet the charges were minimal from MY bank (BofA - 2.00 as opposed to 5.00 at BCP)

[Martin11581 0]

I really can help you with this. I use my Chase debit card (from US) here in Peru and they charge me a 3 dollar fee. You can only take 200 bucks at once. If you take out money in soles, they charge you 3 bucks + a couple cents or dollars for changing the currency. I don't recommend you to take soles cause it's a pain.

ALL ATM's CHARGE 3 DOLLARS but there is this one from INTERBANK called GLOBAL NET, they accept all credit cards but charge 3 BUCK + 2 BUCKS MORE WHICH IS A FEE FROM THAT BACK. Don't go there, go to any other and they will only charge you 3. Most of them take Visa and Mastercard.

I use BCP and i never get charged anything extra but what i withdraw.

GLOBALNET charges me 7 peruvian SOLES as a charge but never BCP

[elkfarmer 4]

I must be doing something wrong. I use a debit card to get funds from my bank account in USA. I am living in Colombia. It is now costing me $166 to get $150 in pesos, plus a $2 transaction fee. Where do all of you get by for so little ?

[athena_ny 1]

I must be doing something wrong. I use a debit card to get funds from my bank account in USA. I am living in Colombia. It is now costing me $166 to get $150 in pesos, plus a $2 transaction fee. Where do all of you get by for so little ?

I went to globalnet cajero in Peru ... only 2.00 to get soles, then I'm not sure how much the bank my acct is with charged. (Became very hard to keep track of soles/dollars with no internet haha)

BCP charged me 5.00 - though I think that was actually BofA but I only got charged it when I used BCP as opposed to globalnet.

[Mononoke28 135]

It depends on your bank. My bank does not charge me for every transaction and when I get my statement it actually shows less than what the ATM receipt showed.

Diana

[bora bora 1]

I also felt that the exchange rate was to my benefit when I was in Peru.

I get charged like CRAZY when I use my debit card as a credit card in Brasil ....!!

[athena_ny 1]

I also felt that the exchange rate was to my benefit when I was in Peru.

I get charged like CRAZY when I use my debit card as a credit card in Brasil ....!!

The dollar dropped everyday that I was there. Wasn't as much to my benefit as it was to your's started at 2.90, and when I left, I saw it as low at 2.77.

[bora bora 1]

I also felt that the exchange rate was to my benefit when I was in Peru.

I get charged like CRAZY when I use my debit card as a credit card in Brasil ....!!

The dollar dropped everyday that I was there. Wasn't as much to my benefit as it was to your's started at 2.90, and when I left, I saw it as low at 2.77.

Yea, I was there (the last time) in 2003, so we got one sol for every dollar. I just remember being surprised and pleased that less was deducted from my bank account than I had planned. I did have a credit union at the time which helped.