Originally Posted by
Majuki
The same can be true of merchants as well. While a restaurant on Las Ramblas is likely in on the con if forcing DCC on its customers, I would give a waitress at the Red Robin in Evansville, IN the benefit of the doubt.
On one hand, DCC isn't all that common in the US and where it does occur, it's generally easy for the customer opt out. On the other hand, I can see a few less scrupulous merchants that already don't bother with anything customer facing (and hate having to accept cards in the first place) forcing DCC if they knew it was an option. I'm not sure I'd give those any benefit of the doubt.
Hopefully, though, Visa/MC being US based makes such abuse easier to stop.