I am absolutely sick of these rip-off practices by commercial banks. I just reopened my Visa card account through one of my credit unions and will from now on refuse to use any commercial bank's Visa/MC/Amex (except maybe for the auto rentals for the free CDW).

Over the last few years, one by one almost every commercial bank has moved to the dark side and imposed this ridiculous fee. What service are they providing exactly that justifies an extra 2% charge. I can somewhat understand the 1% Visa/MC charge but no more.

I say that a grass roots movemnet start to boycott use of non credit union credit cards for foreign charges.

Just letting off some steam.

RP