American Express Travellers Cheque Card Reviews

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7 Reviews For American Express Travellers Cheque Card

  • Guest 20th Jul 2009

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    Would never, ever, buy American Express traveller cheques again. My daughter lost hers; American Express,with a useless call centre in the Phillipines, offered no alternative other than a refund to our home address in four weeks time. Told me that they wouldn't send replacement cheques out. Spoke to someone else later who said they would send cash only out. spoke to someone even later who said they would maybe send traveller cheques, but maybe not. My daughter is in Europe so it shouldn't be a problem to arrange replacements. So something that should be easy to sort out is actually proving very problematic and negates the usefulness of taking traveller cheques in the fist place. Call centre dreadful. I was told today that American Express don't actually own the traveller cheque arm any more - maybe that's why the service is so bad.

  • sener 5th Sep 2007

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    American Express has decided to discontinue the Travellers Cheque Card in the UK.
    If you currently have a balance remaining on your Travellers Cheque Card in the UK, you will be able to continue using your Card at merchants which accept American Express and in ATMs* until 31 October, 2007. We encourage you to spend or withdraw any remaining balance on your Travellers Cheque Card before 31 October, 2007. After this date, your Card will be automatically cancelled and any balance remaining will be ...

  • wgaffney 23rd Aug 2006

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    After all the sales bumf about the American Express Travellers Cheque Card, I was totally disappointed in the administration. The card was rejected at shops. I was cut off when contacting the help line by telephone from Spain. The bonus Euros were not added to my account as promised. After spending hours on the internet and telephone on my return to Scotland, trying to register for an account statement, I was told there was a fault on the system. This does not yet appear to be rectified.

  • durbil Rank: Corporal 20th Aug 2006

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    We used the American Express Travellers Cheque Card when we visited the states last year (2005) and found it to be an extremely efficient way of carrying large amounts of foreign currency without the fear of losing it. We found it easiest to withdraw money to last us 2 - 3 days at a time to minimise the charges that were applied for cash withdrawals, although a lot of shops (most shops that take AMEX credit cards) in the US will also accept the travellers cheque card, so you could also use it di ...

  • jbarton 16th Aug 2006

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    Even if they reject your purchase, because your phone number entered doesn't match your credit card records or some other reason, American Express place a hold on your Travellers Cheque card. You cannot get them to cancel the hold. They will not stop a purchase on a debit card. They will not resolve your problems on the phone. They will not sell you a card in person at an office. The fact that AmEx won't let you purchase them over the phone tells you that they really aren't putting any effort i ...

  • ejjj 15th Aug 2006

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    Like the previous reviewer, I was sold the American Express Travellers Cheque card by Thomsons. The added $30 made the rate good at the time of transaction, and I was told all the plus points. I was given a sealed enveloped which detailed all the "bad" points and told to telephone after 2 hours to activate the card. With a promise of the $30 being added 3 - 5 working days after the card purchase, so we thought we had made a good decision.

    In San Francisco, all the ATM machines charged at leas ...

  • The Daddy Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Aug 2006

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    I got sweet-talked into signing-up for the American Express Travellers Cheque Card by a girl behind the till when I was changing my currency at Thomsons. I was going to exchange my Sterling for Euro's in a straight cash transaction until the girl told me of a special deal they had going on the AMEX Travellers Cheque Card.

    I was told that I could sign-up for this card, the card was free and that I would have an extra 30E added to the card once I had completed the sign-up procedure. Great, or ...