Originally Posted by
percysmith
HK card
Funny enough, the US$31 transaction came out as USD (DCC declined). It was the US$21 transaction where I was screwed.
Only when I got DCCed did I realise my transaction slip looked incomplete. However as the US$31 slip came as an integrated sales invoice/card slip, I thought the US$21 slip should serve likewise.
That's what I was saying. The $21 slip must be done in the Duty Free area where they take USD by default. The rest of Lotte takes KRW by default.
It is like the Duty Free portion uses a USD dominated system, and if you pay in KRW, you actually pay more (it's like a reverse DCC, like using a Korean CC in USA and got DCCed back to KRW).
All in all, I really think the $21 transaction is quite normal. The $31 transaction however, is DCCed IMO.