Foreign ATM withdrawls

Hey anyone know the best i.e the cheapest, card one can have for making withdrawls outside the Eurozone?
Looking up on a few the banks websites the rates seem to vary a good deal.
Last year living in Singapore, Bank of Ireland were charging me a minimum of €3 and up to €6.35 say on a €200 withdrawl.
How can the banks get away with this, are Consumer Watchdogs doing anything about it.
Plus when one makes a withdrawl does this fee include a commission for the foreign exchange?
The Single European Payments Act (SEPA) covers some regions outside the Eurozone so why not places further afield?

Maybe Texas?

whats texas got to do with anything ?

'foreign withdrawals'

I don't get the previous comments either...

nelsenryan82 said:

Hey anyone know the best i.e the cheapest, card one can have for making withdrawls outside the Eurozone?

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I presume that the main options would be credit card (either cash withdrawal from a preloaded a/c or cash advances from an "empty" a/c) or the likes of Cirrus/Maestro/Plus+? I suspect that cash withdrawals from a preloaded CC would be the cheapest but you'd need to check the specific charges levied by your bank/cards to be sure.