Originally Posted by
perthite
In Australia, Visa and Mastercard are prevented from having a no surcharge rule. The 'no surcharge' rule was removed from the agreements in Australia several years ago.
Surcharging has become more widespread in the last year and Hilton is just the latest to add a surcharge.
Still, I wonder if a US based cardholder could dispute the surcharge when they returned home. It is quite clearly shown on the Visa and Mastercard site that merchants can't surcharge. It makes no mention of exceptions, international usage, or anything like "except where permitted by law".
http://usa.visa.com/personal/using_v...surcharge.html
http://www.mastercard.com/us/persona...xpay_faqs.html