Originally Posted by
Sjoerd
This is happening in the USA as well: at the gift shop at the Empire State Building our credit card slip came in euros with a sentence that "I have been informed and have agreed to be be charged in euros, blah, blah...." while of course the sales clerk never even mentioned this scam.
Avis certainly is very eager in offering to bill in your own credit card currency rather than US$. I have learned to decline this "help".