Thanks @sharpiemarker for the reply. I have called them too and they direct me to call paypal which have directed me to call back Synchrony... Removing the foreign transaction fee means nothing if paypal still charges its own forex fee in the form of a rate premium to charge the card in USD. I want the card to be charged in the foreign currency so it can be converted at the actual going rate by Synchrony. I can opt out of paypal's conversion with any of my other cards at checkout. It seems weird that paypal would limit their own card like this especially when they advertise no foreign transaction fee. Charging the card directly always gets declined because the international shopping sites I use require mastercard securecode. I've called Synchrony about this too and they say they can't do anything or the card doesn't support it. I didn't think I was asking for much, just want to take advantage of no forex fee but it seems to be impossible short of actually traveling.
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