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I use BoA and get cash via ATMs here. BoA charges an extra $5 if you get colonies; so I get Dollars, then go inside and change them for colones at the same rate thus saving the $5. I always keep a few dollars around (also have to pay my rent with dollars) so paying Amnet in dollars is no problem for me.

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Old and retired but still bang, and bang, and bang!!!

When I lived in CR I did the same thing, taking dollars out as I needed by ATM and converting them to Colones. Great way to avoid BS charges.

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Go Dolphins!!!

However poorly Brother ID thinks of BofA, I think worse of them. They jacked the rate on my CC balance to 30+%. Didn't that used to be called "usury"? "plundering marauders" indeed
PS I paid it off and cut up the card.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Usury was an term used years ago to describe loan sharks,pawn brokers, etc. It kind of fell off the table when your friendly banker started to make loans. After a few years "Mr Friendly Banker" woke up and said what idiots we are. Lets get into that usury game. So they hired some high priced, well connected, unethical lawyers and lobbyist to get those high minded moralistic congressman to pass laws allowing them to join in the fun. Off course the fees paid the lawyers and lobbyists and campaign donations was a drop in the bucket compared to the fees they collected from the new usurias rates they now can legally charge.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

Still not up to the "Payday Lenders" rate YET but there is still time for them to get there.
Tampa

At least the "Payday Lenders" still operate state-by-state and are thus regulated more locally. Their alleged depredations are under close scrutiny and are in fact being regulated more tightly by many states. What Brother ID and I were talking about are the "money-center" banks that are nominally run in, most tellingly, North Dakota, in which state they "bought" the legislature with the promise of Op-Center and Call Center jobs, to raise the possible CC interest rates to 30+% interest, then use a despicable tactic called "universal default" to jack you up. Universal default means if you are 1 day late on ANY bill anywhere, they can and do use that as the ruse to raise your interest rates. The CC companies know that tighter Federal regulation is coming in mid-2010 so they're squeezing the shit out of us while they can.
There's this other thing--even though they use 1 state's laws to raise the interest rates, if another state tries to tighten regulation on them, they run crying, as Federally chartered banks, to their regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), whom they've also "bought", to get the states to back off. Talk about eating your cake and having it, too!!

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Whats the rate at SL


NYG

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Damm that water is cold!!!
And deep too!!!

540 yesterday and I got 570 and change at bank of CR
Tampa