Currency exchange for Canadian Snowbirds
As a Canadian wintering in Texas, converting $CAN to $US is an ongoing issue. It is just very difficult to escape the markup premium all financial institutions put on currency exchanges. We have tri...
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Falcon35 wrote:
We just returned from to US and I was able to use the postal code #s + 00 with a TD bank US $ visa card.
For the last few years I have not been able to do the 00 thing with our Canadian Master Card.
I hope this keeps working.
I think that you may have hit it on the head! Our CC's from a major bank have worked almost 100% of the time using the work around for he last 2-3 years. Perhaps using a second tier bank or a credit union makes a difference.
