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Booking flights while in Oz

spunkymunky · 2011-07-19 06:30:57

Hi y’all Quick warning should if you are booking flights in Oz or NZ. Watch out for the bank conversion fees if you book through your oz/nz bank account. I booked a holiday back to Ireland through farecompare.com. The flight was in sterling and I paid with my Westpac debit card. I didn’t read the T&C of the account and got…

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19-07-2011 7:30am

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spunkymunky

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Hi y’all

Quick warning should if you are booking flights in Oz or NZ. Watch out for the bank conversion fees if you book through your oz/nz bank account. I booked a holiday back to Ireland through farecompare.com. The flight was in sterling and I paid with my Westpac debit card. I didn’t read the T&C of the account and got hit for a 3% foreign transaction charge. 3%, not much you say….$58 it cost me!!
Just a word of warning!!

Munky

oh, dont keep looking at the same flights after you book or you might see they have dropped by 350 dollars, sigh...

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#2 19-07-2011 7:36am
Xavi6

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It's not just flights, it's any transaction processed by a merchant outside the country.

Also it's not the bank charging the fee, it's Visa/Mastercard.

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