From: john2 
Newsgroups: uk.legal uk.finance
Subject: Re: Barclaycard Foreign Transaction hassles.
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:44:25 +0100


> 
> I'm just about to upgrade  my "Gold" Lloyds debit card to Platinum.
> But AIUI the only difference is in thelevel of the bundled AA
> breakdown recovery included in it. I wouldn't expect it to get me
> extra brownie points in Italy.
> 
> Apparently  my blue chav-esque ASDA card wouldn't get me very far in
> Italy but it gets me 2p/litre off the already cheap ASDA fuel prices.
> 
>

While I hope you sort your hire problems, a Lloyds platinum card isn't 
exactly a brilliant deal.  It has the free travel insurance etc. but I 
have to keep a minimum of £5,000 in credit on a current acount so it 
actually costs the lost interest on £5,000 , say $225 p.a.
You could get quite a lot of travel insurance for that elsewhere.

LTSB latest deal is proper interest on a platinum current account, for 
which you pay them £120 pa. for the privelege.  So altogether they 
trouser £345 pa to keep your money safe.

So its only just short of a scam.

john2