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Old Aug 20, 2017 | 2:22 am
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AllieKat
 
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Originally Posted by viag8
Restaurants in Colombia seem to now use DCC, at least paying with Visa. It's Chip + Signature, so you don't really have control over the final choice of currency. It also happened when using Samsung pay. I had to ask them to reverse it multiple times, and ask them to use the local currency whenever they run it again. Only a couple of times did they ask what currency I wanted to charge to be in.
This, more than any security or acceptance concern, is why people should be protesting chip and signature.

Worse still, contactless is apparently no longer a reliable way to avoid DCC
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