Originally Posted by
jamar
Same as Uber does in China- look at any e-mailed Uber receipt from a ride in China and you'll see "charged in US dollars", and you'll notice that you were charged from the US. Except at least Uber doesn't mark up the rate. AirBNB does, and that's not a very customer-friendly thing to do when you don't offer an alternative.
Uber China charges any card in USD at the proper converted rate, outside of that, I'm not aware of any other countries where Uber doesn't charge the native currency.
When I used AirBnB recently, I changed the billing address country and then checked out but a screen popped up saying something like " The currency of your card is USD. You will be charged in USD". I discovered a charge that was nearly 40% higher than the actual exchange rate from JPY on my CC bill. Currently disputing.