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Originally Posted by getbak
Even with all the fees they tack on now?
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Yes. I just got back from Europe yesterday, and was generally paying 3 Euro to the machine owner and another couple of bucks to my bank. I took out 500-1000 Euros at a time, so as a percentage the fees were like 1% and the exchange rate is many percentage points better than somewhere like calforex or getting cash from the bank.
I like having cash in Europe for places like restaurants - once I have the cheque I can just leave cash vs waiting for them to come back with the machine, which saved quite a bit of time as places were generally pretty busy.