Originally Posted by
reclusive46
It would say something like "Thank you for allowing First Data (I think) to convert your USD XXX transactions into XXXX GBP at the conversion rate of XXXX". You never had any choice in the matter and when I spoke to staff they seemed as clueless as I was and didn't seem to think the transaction had been done any differently to a US card. I just gave up in the end and usually paid by Amex and occasionally Diners Club (As transactions have a habit of getting lost and never making it onto my UK Diners Club account, especially in the early days of the Discover/Diners network merge).
That's sneaky and definitely non-compliant. I'd put that up there with some of the merchants in Mainland China.
I imagine the waitstaff would have been clueless because most of them wouldn't know what to do in that situation. Perhaps at the Times Square or Florida locations they would have seen this before, but I can't imagine a waiter at the Olive Garden in Kokomo, Indiana would know anything about DCC or have even swiped a non-US card before.