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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 7:23 pm
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Originally Posted by travelinfoo
I missed the "I have been given. . ." statement on the first receipt and noticed only on review afterwards. The next time it was tried on me, I refused to sign the receipt. They refused to charge in the local currency. They said they could only do it that way because I had a US CC. I crossed out the statement, wrote "no choice offered" in big block letters on it. The clerk got upset but suddenly "remembered" how to do the charge in the local currency.
Ha. Where was this? Name and shame the merchant.

"got upset but suddenly "remembered"" - haha sounds like my waitress in La Gritta Bangkok Sukhumvit. She first said no choice but gave up blocking when I insisted I see the card terminal.
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