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- In my locale (Midwest US) automated teller machines typically offer pre-set cash amounts of $20, $50 and $100, or you can key in whatever amount you want that’s divisible by tens. ~ In oil-rich countries such as Kuwait or Saudi Arabia, what amounts do ATM’s offer pre-set, and what does that currency equate to in US dollars? Do shieks withdraw $2000, $5000 or $10,000? - MC
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My WAG would be that it’s the same as the U.S. because ATMs are for the Man on the Street, who needs a hundred bucks to put gas in his car, not for the sheik, who has people to do that for him.
Whatever.
Here’s a list of ATMs in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.saib.com.sa/P004-ATMs.htm
You can go to this MasterCard website and look up the location of ATMs around the world, including Saudi Arabia. Hee. 
FWIW…
ATMs in the UK seem to top out at 250 pounds (roughly $360)
ATMs in France seem to go to 2000 Franc (about $285)
ATMs in Poland go to 2000 Zloty (about $500)
ATMs in Spain go to 50,000 Pesetas (about $263)
ATMs in Portugal (IIRC) went to 50,000 Escudo. Which was about $294 at the time, but now is only $220. :eek:
I know these things because my company prefers that I get my foreign currency via ATMs, since the exchange rate and commission fee is so much less.
ATMs in poor Asian countries dispense, one handfull of rice, two handfulls… all the way to the max of 10 handfulls of rice.
*Morrison slaps sailor around with a large bigot
— G. Raven
Sailor may be in a somewhat sardonic mood as to the cultural relativism of cash vs food in poor countries but I don’t think he’s a bigot… well maybe an intellectual bigot but not a racial or cultural one.
In Korea, you can get amounts from “man won” to “chil-ship man won” (I think that’s the maximum…).
I leave the conversion of those amounts as an exercise for the student…
Yes, ATMs are pretty much the same round the world.
Depends on location of the ATM, like in the US, chic locations are scaled higher. I frankly can’t even recall the intervals in Cairo here, but they too vary according to location.
Indeed. One man’s joke is another man’s insult. Oh well… Do they have machines which dispense a sense of humor?
You think referring to slapping people around with fish on IRC indicates a lack of humour?
I just felt it was in bad taste, but obviously you didn’t mean anything by it. But since I’m living in a developing country, I just HAD to say something, if a little more teasing than abusive.
So, friends?
— G. Raven
In Australia, most ATM’s seem to max out at approx. $800, although the one inside the bar I work at maxes out at $1000. My boss isn’t too happy about that, he makes about 3-4 trips to the bank every day just to refill.
Mats K
Melbourne
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- I’m pretty sure it’s spelled “sheik”.
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- I’m pretty sure it’s spelled “sheik”.
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- I guess I wouldn’t really know a shiek if you slapped me around with one: what-n-th-ell is they anyway? I assumed it was an Arabian royal title, but seems I recall some people receiving the title from the king for money- which (just like with the British monarchy) makes it seem quite a bit less elite. And at the same time, as far as I can tell, most of the country’s citizens seem to be related to the king somehow anyway. So what do I know? - MC
Oh reeeeaaaalllly? What time does he normally go? What’s the address of the bar?
“Time for a weekend in Melbourne”, thinks Doggie.
Japanese ATMs max out at the eqivalent of $5000 U.S. If you want more than that, you have to take your card out and put it back in again. There doesn’t seem to be a limit to the number of times you can do that.
If I recall correctly, the lowest denomination in most Japanese ATMs is 10,000 yen (approximately 100 dollars). I suppose this is due to the Japanese tradition of “Carrying your age.” You are expected to carry your age times 1000 in yen. Thus a 30-year-old would be expected to carry 30,000 yen, a sixty-year-old 60,000, etc.
Yeah… I understand little Iceland does have a long way to go before it joins the “big dogs” but keep plugging you’ll get there. Indoor plumbing and supermarkets are great… trust me!
Walking away fast before pendantic lecture on “world’s oldest democracy” begins.
MC, chic was used correctly. It means stylish. Sheik, on the other hand while pronounced the same, doesn’t make much sense in that sentence.
I thought that the amount you could take out was based on an agreement w/ your bank, on an account-by-account basis… the more you keep in the bank, the more they’ll let you take out.
No, the banks limit the amount for safety reasons - such as, if someone steals your card, they can only withdraw a limited amount per day.
What **Anthracite[/s] said. My (UK) bank has a £250 per day limit on cash machine (ATM) transactions. Even when it comes to telephone or online banking, there’s a £1,000 transaction limit - if I want to move £3,000, I have to do it as three separate transactions or get special authorisation. I imagine it’s supposed to discourage hurried hackers.
Incidentally, and only vaguely unrelated, some credit card companies will inform you of any unusual spending patterns using your card. My dad lost his credit card last year, and was phoned a day or two later to be asked whether he really had made five ATM withdrawals of large amounts (he hadn’t, of course, and was impressed at the company’s prompt response).
Sorry about the coding. I’ll get me coat.