Originally Posted by
AllieKat
I think there is a lot of cultural difference as well. In Ireland, for example, I doubt most people feel much remorse for hiring Britons and Americans with DCC. Same for outsiders in Hong Kong and China. Canada, however, or the UK I doubt would find forced DCC to be nearly to acceptable of a practice. The US, however, is one country where I'd think forcing DCC would be considered downright patriotic "this is Murica and you're gonna pay us the way we want to get ar' 'Murican dollaz"
So I'm surprised it isn't more widespread.
I don't know enough about the cultures elsewhere to say whether or not that's the case. I think the customer service and rules driven culture likely prevails in the US to do the right thing or having cashiers/waitstaff willing to retry the transaction.
Or to put it in another perspective, wait until you see the size of my tip if you don't figure out a way to void this transaction and rerun in USD.
I think the DCC scam is most likely present in areas with high tourist or foreign card traffic SE Asia, Europe, etc. I imagine outside of tourist areas in the US it is uncommon to find a non-USD denominated card in the wild. Even my international friends in college primarily used their US-issued debit cards from a local bank account (and later got credit cards as they established credit in the US). And in the kind of places I now visit, most of the foreign cards are UnionPay or JCB anyway, so I wouldn't see any opportunities for DCC.
In most cases I doubt you'd have issues because almost all major stores have digital signature pads now, and
reclusive46 says that's where he has typically seen the DCC offer to appear outside of restaurants. It's just like DFS at HKIA where it was easy to decline if you knew what to expect. It's none of this charade of "check the box and hope the cashier makes some input after the fact".