A bit fed up with a 5% service charge on cash withdrawals. Any advice on a bank to use that has a fixed fee (like thailand) ?Thanks for the advice.
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Cash. And just wait for the new 5% business tax that’s coming in, around June. If you pay buy card you pay the tax, cash=no tax.
Hsbc will charge you . If you are not pritority customer
VP Bank, zero fees.
HSBC on our Nationwide card does not charge.
HSBC also Shinhan
VP ATM withdrawals are free but if your own card has a transaction fee, you’ll still pay that. We have the Edge Up (Santander) debit card, which is free to use worldwide, so if we use this at the VP ATMs in Vietnam, the whole transaction is free.
How is that free of charges? You pay an exchange fee, right?
VP bank doesn’t have any fees
HSBC, 100,000 vnd regardless of withdrawal amount.
You withdraw about 200 US $ and cannot afford a fee of about 55 cents?