Originally Posted by
Majuki
Thanks for the above post. I have yet to be DCC'd in Australia in my 6 trips there over the last 3 years, but I imagine it does happen. I don't much like the credit card surcharge that some places tack on, but at least that's disclosed.
Just the
Strathfield Eatery DCC story then.
Originally Posted by
Majuki
I'll be headed back to Spain in February, and so I'm wondering what the best practice is for there? Should I specify that I want to be charged in euros or refuse to sign if I've been DCC'd? I half expect places that don't do DCC will think I'm crazy for asking them to charge me in euros. "What else would we use? Pesetas?"
I really didn't see much of DCC in Spain, despite what I read and even though we were carding every meal and every purchase >EUR2 (we had a 6% foreign currency spending rebate promo). It might have something with us saying "charge Euros please" before every purchase.
The only time I saw DCC was in El Engles Cortes in Gran Via Madrid, where I saw a 4% DCC rate for a split second before the cashier selected it away on the POS (cos I already said "charge Euros please").