new Abbey Zero credit card

pennymakespounds

mentioned by martin last night as the latest .. best credit card to be used abroad .

The recent detail on this site includes this .....

"""The overall winner is the Abbey Zero card, which has no foreign exchange loading anywhere in the world, plus charges no fee for withdrawing cash from an ATM. """

Question for Martin .... understand about it "not charging fee for withdrawing cash from ATM" ... but how do we know what exchange rate will be given .??

exel1966

Just for info there's already a thread on ZERO

But that won't answer your specific question as the only people that can answer it are Abbey themselves. It's currently anybodies guess as to whose exchange rate they use and how up to date it is. If it's anything like the PO card or Nationwide then it will be good.

BenL

hhhmmmm may need the terms and cons going through with a fine tooth comb to ensure it is correct that there are no loadings.

I guess Martin has done this already though so the rate should be the Visa corporate rate for the day as found here

http://corporate.visa.com/pd/consumer_services/consumer_ex_rates.jsp

BenL

ooppsss just seen the pic and its a Mastercard they have.

Mastercard should have a similar website calculator somewhere tucked away.

realaledrinker

BenL wrote: »

ooppsss just seen the pic and its a Mastercard they have.

You can choose either Visa or MC

Applied Monday, got approval & credit agreement to sign today. Don't know the credit limit yet though.

MattyNeth

realaledrinker - that's pretty quick. Assume that was via the post rather than electronic?

wearside_2

I have just completed the online application and after clicking on submit, received this message:

A technical error has occurred

This could be: - due to inactivity
- due to a system problem
- because you have tried to access a secure page you have previously bookmarked
- because you have disabled cookies on your browser Please try again or, if you are still experiencing technical difficulties please call us on 0845 600 4388:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

steviewander

Is this Abbey Zero card managed by MBNA? I want to transfer my balance from an MBNA platinum card, and I doubt that they will let me if both are with the same bank.

Anybody know?

Cheers
Steve

Volcane

steviewander wrote: »

Is this Abbey Zero card managed by MBNA? I want to transfer my balance from an MBNA platinum card, and I doubt that they will let me if both are with the same bank.

Anybody know?

Cheers
Steve

No, it is managed by Santander.

PBA

realaledrinker wrote: »

You can choose either Visa or MC

No, it's just MC for Abbey Zero. The standard Abbey CC is available as a choice of MC or Visa.

YorkshireBoy

PBA,

The 13 month card seems to have been pulled from the website, although branch literature indicates the card is still available.

Is it now only available from branch, or by phone as well?