Originally Posted by
Majuki
I have observed this as well, which is ironic considering many American credit cards now feature a 0% foreign transaction fee. It's even worse when someone is using a card with a 3% foreign transaction fee and falls for DCC. While their ignorance costs them, what gets me frustrated is this conditions merchants into opting in people as the default.
Could it be because banks and credit unions don't seem to tell their customers about it? I searched for "dcc" in Google just now and it didn't show anything close to the topic of this thread. "DCC card" does, but it's a mix of anti-DCC stuff from blogs and pro-DCC stuff from payment processors.