Originally Posted by
percysmith
HSBC HK opted to courtesy credit the Cathy NS Wong hongkongcard.com at Venetian Macau case
http://www.hongkongcard.com/forum/fo...p?id=12533&p=7 #64
I say try and drive for chargeback as hard as you can, but accept courtesy credits when chargeback not permitted by bank. If they have to do courtesy credits often enough they may go to Visa and do something about it.
Have been traveling around the French countryside for the last week, eating, sleeping, drinking and (when not drinking) driving (with Europcar rental) with mastercards and visas. No DCC ever tried, not even in the mercure/novotels and Europcar. DCC is still so foreign to them one cashier thought I wanted to pay cash when I told them I wanted to pay Euros.
I do agree with your assessment that DCC is less likely to occur in France than many other placs in Europe. I think it goes back to the idea that the French still consider themselves to be a premier world power and that everybody when in France should do things the French way. Before the euro was introduced that included not taking fofreign currencies in lieu of French Francs and even though many can speak English not giving in to tourists and speaking in English (in most other Western European countries, knowledge and abilaity to speak English is almost (note the word) universal and locals enjoy practicing their English with tourists! Not as much in France so I agree; DCC is hardly ever tried in France (I'm sure somebody will come up with exceptions).