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Surely they can't do this!

Legacy_user · 2006-05-21 20:00:58

In the past couple of weeks I booked flights and a car through Expedia and I paid Expedia with my Skycard credit card. I went on to get an idea of my current balance and found the total had been broken down into individual items ie: 4 x tickets (£343.70 each) and 1 car but the car was charged to Expedia and the flight…

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King_Of_Fools Posts: 1,612 Forumite

11 June 2006 at 9:11PM

Pam17 wrote:

I made separate purchase, of attraction tickets, using my credit card and it showed up on my statement as USD $ with the exchange rate given separately. So since Aer Lingus was not itemised as Euros but in GBP I took it that there was no currency change involved hence why the foreign transaction charge?

Sounds like you might have been hit by DCC!

Aer Lingus charged you the foreign transaction charge.

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