Purchasing in Australia yet incurring a foreign transaction fee

[PhilT]

Welcome to the Community @Rzazzle,

I moved your topic into this older one that although longish explains the foreign fees.

Bottom line is this has nothing to do with whether ANZ

@Rzazzle

shifted services overseas themselves

and everything to do with where the transaction was processed by the seller. The first few posts should cover it.

Please post again if this does not clear it up for you.

edit: this may also be an interesting topic for you.

International Transaction fees on AUD Transactions

Just noticed about a month ago that I started getting charged an “international transaction fee” for some purchases in Australian dollars, by the Commonwealth Bank. I spoke to them and they said they only started doing this in August 2016 because all the credit card providers started charging this fee. My main issue with this, is there is usually no way to tell when a seller’s account is located overseas before the transaction. These hidden fees are really starting to get annoying when you pay …