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Old Jun 18, 2025 | 12:31 am
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Originally Posted by electronicmaji
I think in some countries it's not even possible to make purchases in local currency on US cards. E.G. Aruba and Curacao function like this from what I understand. You can't even charge their local currencies on any terminal and the local bank has things set up that way.
While that is the case, it is not an example of DCC. The machines are processing in USD natively. So, for instance, even if you had a Canadian card denominated in CAD, you'd still see USD on the terminal in Aruba.
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