Halifax card fees

[Zaphod 0]

First of all... I MADE IT TO THE US!! :D

I'm now here with my wife, got here a couple days ago, and all is wonderful. POE at Newark took all of about 3 minutes - I was done before my suitcase had even got to the carousel!

So, anyways, on to the point. I bank with the Halifax in the UK, and forgot to check what their fees for using cards abroad are. I had a look on their website just now, but couldn't find anything, so I phoned them up, and no wonder they don't want to advertise the rates!

If you use your Halifax Visa Debit card there's a £1.50 fee, plus 2.75% of the purchase cost

The credit card is the same, but without the £1.50 fee

Also, the 2.75% is *not* capped, so no matter how much you spend, they always take that percentage of it.

Just thought this might be useful for someone else to know, as I had to kind of dig this info out of them.

I think I'm gonna look into this clearinghouse site that everyone on here seems so fond of....

[brtlmj 0]

If you use your Halifax Visa Debit card there's a £1.50 fee, plus 2.75% of the purchase cost

The credit card is the same, but without the £1.50 fee

Also, the 2.75% is *not* capped, so no matter how much you spend, they always take that percentage of it.

That looks like a standard currency exchange fee... unless you have to pay this percentage on top of the exchange fee.

Bartek

[Toledospod 0]

Zaphod, I have two words for you - HALIFAX SUX!!!

I had a current account and a savings account with them for years(never had a credit card with them). I closed all my accounts with them before I moved to the US as they wouldn't even let me change my address to the US.