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Green Dragon


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I have no idea if this is just some cards or all, but I JUST got this message through my Discover card:

 

We are pleased to inform you that, effective 11/06/11 we will no longer charge a Foreign Currency Fee on any international purchases made with your Discover® card.

 

For those who work hard to keep those foreign fees down, this is gold. 

 



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Thanks Christy. Although don't know of anyone in Ireland that takes Discover! Perhaps some other country?

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Perhaps. I never found anyone that took Discover, either - perhaps that's why they did it! Cheap publicity with no revenue lost.

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Now, aren't they smart?

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What's a Discover Card? I Believe our Lazer cards are to be fazed out as only Irish banks use them and on the trip to Southport UK last weekend I couldn't use a couple of ATM's despite it being a LINK affiliated card.

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Tony,

Discover is a brand name credit card like Visa or MasterCard. They have a smaller demographic base since it can only be used in the USA (or so I think). I have never seen it in use in any other country. But perhaps with their announcement they will be expanding...or it is clever press as Christy and I were discussing. It is similar to Lazer.

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