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- From: timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee)
- Subject: Re: Foreign ATM Fees
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.064421.9633@netcom.com>
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- Sender: timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee)
- Reply-To: timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee)
- References: <1htrvuINN975@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec31.052924.13526@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:44:21 GMT
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- afriend@dial.Princeton.EDU (A. Friend) writes:
- |by avk@hafnium.cchem.berkeley.edu (Tony Konashenok):
- |> There still are banks which won't charge you a penny for using other banks'
- |> ATMs. Most of them are very small, have only a few ATMs, and simply *need* to
- |
- |I know that the United Jersey Bank has a progrom called preferred banking,
- |which allows unlimited use of the ATMs. You have to have a combined balance
- |of $3,000 in your checking and saving accounts.
-
- Now the question is, are there banks or S&Ls which allow free foreign ATM
- use (even if only a few times per month) that (1) are not unreasonably
- expensive in other ways (e.g. high fee, high balance requirement), and
- (2) are reasonably accessible to most people? The $3000 balance requirement
- for the bank named above fails (1), while a credit union named in another
- article fails (2) because most people cannot use it.
-
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