Thursday, January 29, 2009
Beware of International Fees!!
Never ever ever use your debit card overseas esp. in Japan! Just use your cash! Because these international fees are autrocious. Like if you use a debit card to purchase a $1.05 of cookies at a convenient store it'll come out to be $9 damn you have international fees!! So remember just use cash! Also don't check your balance on the atm machine because it'll cost you $5 more. Also instead of waiting at the post office to get money in Japan you can go to the convenient store like 7 Surplus to take money out whenever there is a plus star on the ATM and if it's on your card you can take money out! and it's 24/7. Well, that's all and beware of the international fees!
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I would suggest that you only use your debit card to withdraw cash from your bank account and not use it for purchases anywhere. Neither Japan nor the States. If someone gets your card number and spends all of the cash in your account you'll have no cash and will be limited in how much you can eventually get back. It will take a while to get it back as well.
Instead, as you say take cash out from bank machines. You have to be careful with cash withdrawals as well. You get charged each time you take cash out. So taking out more once is better than taking out smaller amounts multiple times.
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