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Old Mar 27, 2012 | 7:06 am
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Originally Posted by ajnaro
Right, but what was the final USD charge you had to pay on your card and what rate does it represent in relation to xe.com?
There were four £ transactions over a 3 week period. I took each one and looked up the XE.com rate on the day and what this should have equated to in $.

I then looked at the $ amount that the merchant had used and using the XE.com rate of that day calculated the overcharge in £ that the merchant had added with dcc.

I kept a running total of this £ overcharge and this total is the credit I received.

I used an average calculation of rates for the purposes of my summary post but for the real calculations I worked it out based on the rate on the date in question.

Does that answer you question?
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