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Old 16-04-2007, 20:26
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Originally Posted by M79 View Post
Better put a pencil to how much it would cost in bank fees to take out 800K

And those fees will never work out to be more than the "charge" from an exchange rate differential...

I don't know what is happening now with this on shore/offshore rate differential, but I used to get charged 1% fee on ATM withdrawls... much better than the 10% rate differential that is at least happening with wire transfers with a middleman...

Maybe I should go to the ATM and test the theory into practice, but I was hoping that some US citizen would have already done so and reported back on the rate they got...
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