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Old Jul 11, 2015 | 6:16 pm
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Originally Posted by jamar
If anyone's curious, I bumped into something kind of strange in Romania these past couple of weeks.

Euronet ATMs here have large signs "offering" you transactions processed in your home currency. I need to try with a couple more cards, but it only asked me if I wanted to run it in USD (at 3.6RON/USD when the rate is actually 3.97RON/USD, so a commission of a little less than 10%) when I did a cash advance on my Barclaycard Ring, not my Schwab debit card. I'd need to try again with my TD debit card to see if it's unique to the Schwab card or if the machine only offers DCC to MasterCard, but there it is.
DCC on a credit card cash advance but not for an actual ATM debit withdrawal itself?
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