Re: Anyone seeing a $1.50 foreign transaction fee?

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Hi all,

On 01/30/13 09:38, Colin Percival wrote:
> A Tarsnap user has reported that after using his credit card to make a Tarsnap
> payment (directly, i.e., not via PayPal), he was charged a $1.50 "foreign
> transaction fee".  To make things more confusing, nobody is admitting to being
> responsible for charging that fee.
> 
> Has anyone else seen such a thing when making a Tarsnap payment?  If yes, please
> let me know what sort of card you used (visa/MC/amex and the issuing bank).

Thanks for all the replies, both on-list and direct.  It sounds like such fees
are a common phenomenon with US credit cards... here in Canada I've never heard
of such a thing before.

Next question: Am I correct in thinking that people with US credit cards are
*not* seeing such fees when paying via Paypal?  If so, I'll add some text to
the payment page to warn about the possibility of card fees and recommend
Paypal as an option for avoiding them.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid