FairFX reviews

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Donna Cooper-Holmes

8 February 2023

Currency card declined abroad despite having plenty of money on the card. Infuriating!! Just called to cancel and get my money back but they had me on hold for 15 minutes. I called back and was told it’s busy maybe call early morning or late pm as staff on lunch break!! Just ridiculous

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Janet

31 December 2022

Just tried to buy some foreign currency with my Fairfx card. Transaction declined.

I then tried to buy foreign currency on the Fairfx currency site using my Fairfx card. Guess what. Declined. They seem to have blocked my card even though there is ,more than enough money in the account. I have emailed them each time it has been refused today and am still waiting for a reply from their 24/7 email service. They have my money and I can’t access it.

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Tim Roberts

11 December 2022

I called FairFX twice before my trip to Disneyland Paris to confirm my multi currency card was not blocked or had any issues, I had issue in Italy in May.

2 agents confirmed there was no problem.

So I try to use my card in Disneyland, refused twice.

Very poor show as I will now have to use credit card.

Not my first choice.

So disappointed and frustrated, can’t tell you how angry I am after going through the process of confirming all should be ok!!!!.

Second trip abroad you have caused embarrassment, when card declined/refused.

Very Disappointed.

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Geo.

1 November 2022

Impossible to top up while on holiday in Spain.

FairFX were always good, I loaded our shared cards with 2500 Euro to pay for the hotel and spending money and I also topped up a few days into our hols without an issue. With three days left of our hols, our funds were getting low so I tried to top up from my usual source, although I got a message that I'd added 300Euro to the account, no money appeared, I tried several more times with the same result. I tried two other cards to top up the currency cards also with no joy. It was an absolute waste of time having these currency cards as we just couldn't top them up. We ended up using our UK bank cards to finish our hol. Fair FX blamed my bank, but I went through all the usual security questions successfully with no issues. No more FairFX, will be looking for an alternative card for my next hol.

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Boz

6 October 2022

In general I've found the multi-currency card useful for budgeting particular purchases but it is becoming an increasing irritation that the app doesn't show daily balances. This means if I'm checking amounts I have to go back through the month to calculate everything up manually when daily balances would make things easier. Also, download monthly statements would be helpful too.

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Deborah

29 September 2022

Got this card to use on holidays, thankfully it worked very well with no issues, however tried using it today and the card was declined 6 times!!!! absolutely shocking and so embarrassing when there is clearly enough funds on the card, but still wouldn't work until i topped it up more! what is this about, can you not use the money that's already on the card or what? afraid to use again incase it declines !!!

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Alistair Chadwick

24 September 2022

Lost my currency card and the cards and pin page on the website wont open and just says "oops" " error code"

Prior to that I have emailed 6-7 times but I still have the issue

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Gavin Taylor

25 August 2022

Started well, easy to load the card BUT....transactions started being declined on my card at various places and for various amounts (some as little as $1 with $500 still on the card). My wife has a seperate fairfx card that has now been declined in a fuel station, several bars and at Universal studios. Luckily we still have some cash but although my plan was to leave funds on the card, we will now be looking at good old cash and the normal credit cards in future. Sort yourselves out fairfx, my wifes card still has circa $1000 on it and we are actually scared to use it due to the embarassment of it failing time after time. Poor.

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Marc

17 August 2022

Won't give me my money back

After coming back from the US and still having money on my card i tried to call them to get a refund. The phone lines aren't taking calls. I messaged on their contact page, messaged on Twitter and emailed. 2.5 weeks and many promises someone would call to discuss and no call has come through. They're holding on to my money and won't give it back

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Paul

22 July 2022

Terrible card. Do not even consider getting one. A majority of times transactions do not work. Nightmare while using in Spain.