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Originally Posted by stiwi
Originally Posted by
hclee01
I have just used my Visa card last week in Shanghai. I have ticked off RMB and in the end, when I log to the Internet Banking to check, it is billed in SGD without the RMB amount indicated.
I have noticed that ticking off respective currency AFTER the slip was printed is completely ignored. I had this case too. I would be surprised actually to see this working, it would mean that someone goes through all the slips and change the currency which is simply impossible.
In places where ticking works, the PoS should stop to take the choice and a verbage-free receipt should be produced after (or verbage to the effect you have not chosen DCC and Visa/MC will perform the translation). However I've only seen this in Taiwan.
In most other places I have not been presented with ticking - in Thailand, Korea, UK and France the selection is taken verbally, prior to merchant or customer slip being printed. The cashier keys in the choice.
I'm heading again to Europe soon - Italy and Spain this time. As SO plans to do some serious retail therapy and we have a bank offering 6% on all overseas transactions (must be Visa - DCC okay but we save more by avoiding that) we plan to bellow "EURO! EURO!" every time the card is presented. I already made a demonstration at the cab rank from the concert we were attending which freaked the three people in front.