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- From: bguan@stein.u.washington.edu (David Bingzhong Guan)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Foreign ATM Fees
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 07:30:43 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- References: <1htrvuINN975@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec31.052924.13526@Princeton.EDU> <1992Dec31.064421.9633@netcom.com>
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- In <1992Dec31.064421.9633@netcom.com> timlee@netcom.com (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Key Bank of Washington. Free checking, free ATM (Exchange & PLUS) with $100
- minimum balance.
-
- David
-
- >--
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- >Timothy J. Lee timlee@netcom.com
- >No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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- David Bingzhong Guan
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