Thanks @tony but that I&M card seems to accrue charges every time you even glance at it. I have the I&M mpesa card and the exchange rate is consistently 5-7sh above market rates.They do have some good customer care though. All in all it's probably time to head to CFC.

On 29 April 2014 07:55, James Muendo <timrick@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 

CFC is not so bad when it comes to their rates. 

Regards, 

On 28 April 2014 22:18, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been buying so much, trust me, and while I see the rate of exchange via www.xe.xom, CFC exceeds it by only a few cents - less than a shilling!

On 28 April 2014 19:04, Job Muriuki <muriukin@gmail.com> wrote:

@ Wash

What rates do you get to the dollar. 

I use my equity card and the rates are high.

On saturday I got 90.32 kes to the dollar.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

I use my CFC Stanbic CC and their rates aren't quite depressing when I buy online.

On 28 April 2014 18:26, James Mutuku <listmutuku@gmail.com> wrote:

The nakumatt card I got is powered by kcb - they say you can load upto
800,000/-

I have a kcb debit card and their usd rates are depressing

On 4/28/14, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
> *2014-04-28 9:41 GMT+03:00 Keneth Kingori <kkingori@gmail.com
> <kkingori@gmail.com>>:*
>>
>> *The most attractive feature for me was the possibility of depositing

>> dollars and thus reducing ksh/$ exchange hit, but turns out you deposit
>> kenya shilings then convert to dollars in your online wallet thus zero

>> benefit since they still use the banks high rate.*

>>
>
> If the conversion losses are of major concern,  I'd recommend the I&M
> Multi-currency pre-paid

> card.<https://www.imbank.com/cards/multicurrency-prepaid-card/>

> Loading fees apply. They will be rolling out a Chip-n-PIN version in a
> month or so.
>
> Tony.
>

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