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Old Sep 16, 2012 | 10:07 am
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Originally Posted by MoreMilesPlease
How can vendors rip you off for 10-20% in currency exchange? Always make credit card purchases in local currency.
A number of merchants' POS machines will try to translate charges to a foreign credit card into the home currency of that card, at a terrible rate.
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