Originally Posted by
Barciur
I was given two receipts, one with the standard item list / total / tip / total w/tip / thing and then the terminal print out receipt at the end. I did not get to sign that one - the one which says I agreed to it did not have any signature line. I only signed the standard one in CAD.
I did not protest it because I did not see it at first, which is my mistake. Especially being on here, I should have been very vigilant. To my defense, this was at the end of a 4 day trip to Canada and I had not experienced anything like this at all on the trip and I've dined in a number of places with a similar set up, so my vigilance was soft.
This doesn't sound like a compliant process at all and would hold up to a chargeback. (I always take a photo of signature slips, even in the US, to prevent any funny business with padding the tip line.) If you did not sign a DCC verbiage receipt, you never agreed to DCC.
Originally Posted by
moondog
I don't follow this thread so closely these days because I have become used to paying an extra 2 bucks. As much as I dislike the concept of DCC, it's simply not worth causing a scene over it on a $50 dinner (e.g. I'm now blacklisted from a handful of restaurants) or hounding my cc company after the fact.
On a more positive note, DCC is less and less of an issue in Shanghai.
Like
tmiw said, that's what they count on. In Mainland China I use my affiliated AmEx for Hilton or Marriott hotels and UnionPay for everyday transactions. I've found that restaurants and the like often don't code in bonus categories anyway, so it's not a loss using the UnionPay with 1% cash back. As a last resort, I use cash the few places where it's possible these days.
Originally Posted by
HkCaGu
I guess the last resort is have another pair of hands and video-record every ATM transaction you conduct outside your country.
Didn't we all have a similar conversation a few years back about overseas merchants refusing our mag stripe only cards? "The merchant is required to accept all cards." I can see a similar line of, "When presented with the option, select local currency."