Originally Posted by
nwflyboy
This was at a cheap semi-fast food place, our total bill was around 20 Euro (even with the sneaky DCC slipped in) and the DCC gouge was probably less than 2 Euro...so I didn't make a big stink over it, although it did piss me off and I did give them a short lecture. They promised to take it up with the manager the next day. Yeah, sure. I let it go.
And that's
exactly what they expect. In absolute terms the value isn't that high, but as a percentage of each transaction, they're making a healthy profit. In those cases, I refuse to sign the receipt and deface it by crossing out the DCC language and writing "DCC refused". I also take a photo with my phone. I would encourage you to file a dispute with your card issuer when you get home. Card issuers are well aware of the DCC scam by this point.
To view it another way, if the bill came and you had paid cash, would you let it go if the cashier shortchanged you? I view DCC as the same con in card form. Unfortunately, in the Czech Republic merchants would be likely to nab a ton of people given it has a different currency than all of the countries that surround it. FWIW, I didn't see any DCC 4 years ago, but I only had a handful of transactions while I was there.
The best practice is assuming the
percysmith torso over counter posture to view them handling the card and be ready to pounce on the DCC prompts.