Originally Posted by
percysmith
We went to a total of three resorts.
I was feeling pretty good until my flight landed in HK - I flipped on my phone and got connected to Citi before my flight reached its parking bay. Dammit, HK$12,409.42 is being held again.
Maybe the terminal holds credit at DCC rate and posts according to cardholder selection (not yet), but I've had Citi send me a dispute form (getting Citi's fax server to fax you a form takes half a day...) cos I don't have a good feeling about this.
Even if the terminal eventually posts correctly, Global Payments deserves a large sharp piece of coral shoved up its anus for this. By default, the terminal will DCC unless you answer the illogical answer ("No") to a deceptively worded question ("Print next receipt?").
My experience of DCC is that they hold the DCC amount, and then show the correct amount.
There are lots of DCC POS machines that use very deceptively weird ways to trick people.
BTW, I got my American Express Platinum. Now if I go to some war zones, I will just use this to shut those greedy transaction handlers (like this Global Payment sxxt) up.