I dont know how many times I tried to tell folks that Avis does NOT DCC you on their initial quote that always translates to your currency - the rate they use is within the market rate at the time, no more than 0.01 to 0.02% difference.

You guys are acting like Pavlov's dogs that the moment you saw your currency you automatically assumed you are DCCed.

In Avis case, it is NOT.

In fact we have had the experiences that at the end even though we opted to be billed in local currency, somehow it is still billed in USD as quoted - And the USD amount 1) identical to what is quoted, 2) almost 4% LOWER than the market translation at the time from EU to USD due to EU shot up by almost 5% between the couple months from our reservation to our actual rental.

Use your head instead of your emotion here -
1) there is 0 DCC in Avis whether it is in the quoted USD in the reservation because I checked XE and found it was just the straight market rate translation, NO PADDING.
2) At the time of rental, by the EU amount our bill should be 5% more than what our reservation quoted, when translated to USD at market rate. Yet, the final bill was identical to the USD quoted.

I always chose local currency when making an Avis reservation, before the final confirmation page, I captured the costs shown in local currency because once you hit reserve, the final page would automatically converted to USD.

Yet, for about doz rentals done in EU the past 3 years, I have NOT had a single DCC as long as you have opted out in your profile. The final bills are ALWAYS very close to what are initially quoted. What are initially quoted are ALWAYS very close to the MARKET RATE shown on XE at the time of reservation.
On top of that, the reservation $ would CHANGE any time you pull it up because the underlying currency translation rate to USD changes. Sometimes it goes higher sometimes it goes lower - but always very close to what XE shows.

Believe what you want to believe. Avis does not double DCC you regardless you see the USD on your reservation. If you opt out in your profile, you will not be DCCed at final billing. This is based on our international rentals which are 100% Avis because we found Avis has the best rates when using AWD - beat any of the other major rentals among Hertz, National, SIXT, Enterprise, etc. Of course if you can "negotiate" a rate from Europcar to beat the quotes you get from Avis, and prepay that reservation, that would be cheaper than booking with Avis using the AWD (HHonors works the best in case you wonder.)