Originally Posted by
abaheti
[D]o US merchants do this bs to foreign visitors/tourists too?
DCC does exist in the US, but I've not had any recent data points since early 2015. DCC was present in retail settings at major chain stores where the option appeared on the customer facing terminal. As I mentioned at the time, it was almost counterintuitive for me to select USD.
Originally Posted by
tmiw
No personal experience as to how common it is but from what I remember others saying earlier in the thread, it's easy to opt out of DCC in the US.
Yes, it was easy enough to opt out. Judging by the blank stares from cashiers as we went through the purchase process they had no influence on the DCC selection.
There was a data point from one of our UK posters here a few years ago of DCC being present at large chain restaurants, but the waitstaff was able to opt out. As I said at the time, in those cases the customer service oriented attitude and prospect of a tip would be able to get a DCC opt out even if initially present as part of the tip adjust process.
Mrs. Majuki has a single non-USD card that we can use to test. However, it's a non rewards card with a foreign transaction fee, so we're not too inclined to go around just to collect data points.