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It can be better to wait for the statement before trying to pay back the cash advance, depending on the rules of the card and the state of the account.
The worst case is if you're running a balance on a 0% offer, and the money you pay in is set against the 0% balance instead of being set against the cash advance. Yes they can still do this."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
true for most cards but the santander card has no fee so the OP wouldn't pay the £6 fee
and if his APR was say 25% then the interest for say one month would be less than £4
and of course the santander card has no foreign excahnge fee so all in all it's probably one of the cheaperst ways of drawing cash abroad
Ok, didn't realise, never looked at a Santandar card to be honest, so it could well cost virtually nothing, if paid back straight away.0 -
It can be better to wait for the statement before trying to pay back the cash advance, depending on the rules of the card and the state of the account.
The worst case is if you're running a balance on a 0% offer, and the money you pay in is set against the 0% balance instead of being set against the cash advance. Yes they can still do this.
Someone posted recently they got caught out by this, when they made a payment before the cash advance hit the statement and therefore it came off the statement balance for that month.
For me the card I used didn't have a balance on it, so as soon as it hit the account (I was logging in a dozen times a day lol), I paid it immediately.0
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