THey may pull a trick like RyanAir.
Buying a ticket on the RyanAir website, the price is shown in euros all the waty through, including in big figures at the bottom right on the page where you click to purchase. What many miss is a very small but pre-checked box off to the left that offers currency conversion. To avoid your purchase being charged in your own currency at a very bad rate, you have to find and uncheck this box.
Under US consumer law, this would clearly be deemed an ''unfair and deceptive business practice'' and they would get reamed out in the courts for it. I am wondering if a class action against US based credit card companies like MC and Visa for ALLOWING these things to be done might work to put a stop to these frauds.
Originally Posted by
SF_trotter
I was just ripped off by Virgin Blue of Australia when purchasing a ticket online. At no point in the booking process did the website offer me the choice between paying in Australian Dollars or my own currency (US Dollars). Only when I looked at my receipt did I see the disclosure that I was charged in US Dollars, after a 3.75% markup.
What really steams me is that they have the gall to add "Cardholder choice is final" on the receipt.