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Oct 18, 2005 | 7:34 am

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I have read about this, but have not experienced it. What sort of merchants are doing it? Do you have the impression the sales clerk chooses the currency manually, or does their terminal detect the nationality of the card when it is swiped and default to dollars because you have a USA issued card?

dennis

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