Card payments abroad

[bad company]

captain_cynic said:

Starling advertise 3 days for the card to arrive, but mine got here in 2.

You could chance it. Worst thing that could happen is that you don't get the card and have to go with what you've got.

Revolut say 9 days, mine took 3.

[HotJambalaya]

kev1974 said:

Going to Singapore.

I see that Monzo need 3 working days to send a card out and Revolut advise 9 days for delivery unless you pay them extra for express delivery, but even that is still three days.

I'll check out Starling, too late for this trip but I am sure there will be more trips.

Thanks.

Still worth signing up, since i know at least for revolut and starling you can have a virtual card, and starling let you add yours directly to apple pay, so even without the physical card you can use it for online transactions, and contactless from your phone.

[bad company]

HotJambalaya said:

Still worth signing up, since i know at least for revolut and starling you can have a virtual card, and starling let you add yours directly to apple pay, so even without the physical card you can use it for online transactions, and contactless from your phone.

I don’t think Revolut works with Apple Pay yet?

[David Beer]

Sorry, use my Amex . I know 3% isn’t small, but in the scene of things! I get one mile per pound spent, all the protection etc. Got scammed for 10k of wet fish in key west, sorted before I got home and found out. Ok it costs 2400 a year but I get my money’s worth. And for the ‘not accepted ‘ maybe once a year in at least 10 weeks a year abroad.

[bad company]

David Beer said:

Sorry, use my Amex . I know 3% isn’t small, but in the scene of things! I get one mile per pound spent, all the protection etc. Got scammed for 10k of wet fish in key west, sorted before I got home and found out. Ok it costs 2400 a year but I get my money’s worth. And for the ‘not accepted ‘ maybe once a year in at least 10 weeks a year abroad.

I have an Amex BA Black Card which works well enough but I won’t use it abroad due to the 3% fee.

You’re right about fraud. I’ve had 3 attempts and Amex stopped all of them, they seem very good at that.

[HotJambalaya]

bad company said:

I don’t think Revolut works with Apple Pay yet?

Not sure, I was referring to Starling working with apple pay. Bad punctuation on my part.

[martin-95sd2]

Recently had a month in Greece using my new Starling account. It works very well at national banks like Alpha but not so good at Euronet or Eurobank atm’s. They always stick an exchange charge on it.
The account was very easy to open and transferring money in and out of it is easy.
Previously used Caxton FX prepaid card but Starlings fx rate is much better.

[captain_cynic]

martin-95sd2 said:

Recently had a month in Greece using my new Starling account. It works very well at national banks like Alpha but not so good at Euronet or Eurobank atm’s. They always stick an exchange charge on it.
The account was very easy to open and transferring money in and out of it is easy.
Previously used Caxton FX prepaid card but Starlings fx rate is much better.

Do you mean Starling or the ATM?

Not much we can do about ATM charges, but I can definitely say Starling doesn't have an exchange charge. I was in the US last week and I was getting within half a cent of the interbank rate.