Originally Posted by
upnorth
The only country where DCC was a better deal was in Kazakastan. In China DCC has reduced. In India DCC has become very bad now. In Turkey I did not face a problem. In known problem places I use Amex. From next month my employer is making it mandatory to use their credit card so I will care two hoots for DCC. But their card is Visa and that will be a limitation in China.
How is DCC a better deal if you have a 0% card unless the spread was far below the Visa/MC rate? Would you say India is worse than China now in terms of how common DCC is or inability to offer a 'choice' of currencies?
I wouldn't be as inclined to fight DCC if required to use a Visa in known forced DCC situations - think Greyhound Cafe in HK - but if the opt-out isn't hard I would still choose local currency to avoid actively participating in perpetuating the DCC scam. I've only had one employer that required use of a corporate card. Since that was an AmEx, DCC wasn't an issue.