Originally Posted by
LoneTree
Not forced like the Chinese locked terminals at least. But it was unfortunately unavoidable sometimes whether it was the wording, language barrier, the clerk's reflexes, or willful.
Poland's MO seemed to be more deceptive language than anything else. The terminal switched to English with a large "Approve Transaction?" Way down at the bottom in small text it would have USD above Green, Red for (local currency).
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'm still cautious about giving merchants the benefit of the doubt under these circumstances. In the place that did it out of spite I would have flat out refused to sign for the purchase and asked them to void the transaction. I have zero tolerance for merchant games.
I feel like from these observations that some of it is a language barrier, but it other cases it's definitely willful disregard of your DCC opt-out choice. It also seems like in Poland DCC is everywhere.