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Old Aug 15, 2014 | 6:46 am
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Originally Posted by tmiw
I backed a Kickstarter in Australia with my CSP tonight and I'm happy to report that they didn't try to DCC me. ^ Normally Kickstarter sends you to Amazon Payments to complete the transaction, but I guess they only do that for US based ones. It's also good that I have a FTF free card because otherwise it'd be a surprise for not so good reasons.

EDIT: actually, the Chase emails I got after they authorized my card show the amount in USD, not AUD. I'll probably know more once the Kickstarter finishes but according to Visa's exchange rates for 8/15, AU$1 = US$0.933107 and the authorization on Chase's online banking is for $0.93 so it's probably still a good bet that I didn't.
I think things will always appear as USD to Chase. You won't see the exchange rate until you can get a PDF of the statement, but it seems like using the current day's Visa exchange rate still works. ^
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