Originally Posted by Stephen65

Incidentally I've always found the name of those shops at HKG amusing - "free duty" instead of "duty free".

I assume the reason is that there is no duty anywhere in HK anyway so it would be misleading to describe themselves as "duty free" so they came up with the next best thing to make people think there is some sort of advantage to buying at the airport. Everything I have priced at the airport has always turned out to be cheaper in town and sometimes considerably cheaper.

My method to avoid DCC in areas notorious for imposing it on you is to either use an amex card or pay cash.