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Old 08-13-2014, 08:31 PM
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I strongly advise not to use a credit card to get cash at an ATM machine. Use a debit card. The credit card will start charging you interest the minute you use it to withdraw cash. On Capital One, they put the amount drawn and interest charged way underneath the total due, and you might not notice it.

My husband once withdrew $20 on our Capital One card by mistake, and I wasn't paying attention to this on the bill because I didn't know he did it. Finally I called and said what's the interest charge? They explained it to me. So I had to tack on $20 plus a few dollars for any interest and add it to the balance due. That was the only way to erase the charge. (He knows better now.)
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