DCC Is Designed To Give You A Choice

Alfie_E

grumbler wrote:

My recent experience was with buying online one-way EasyJet ticket from Germany to UK. However, in this instance I was offered a choice of currencies to pay and it was much better to pay in euros than in ££s.

Thanks for the heads-up. Last time I booked with easyJet, it was a choice of the currency of the initial-departure country or nothing.

This is something that travel-related websites often offer. Hotelopia and Octopus Travel, easyJet's current and former affiliates for providing accommodation, have always given a choice. If you have a Nationwide credit card, when you're given a choice, it often worth while checking the offers in the various currencies, against the exchange rates on a site like XE.com. When a company only operates across Europe, they usually base their accounting in the euro, so usually the euro works out cheapest. Even though Octopus Travel is based in the UK, the transaction was processed in the UK and the hotel I was booking wasn't in a euro-zone country, the cheapest price was still in euros.

This is how all DCC should work, but doesn't. So, inspired by Jennifer's Language Page, I wonder if we couldn't do with a list of "No, I want to pay in <instert local currency>." My sole contribution is not likely to be much use, as I've never had a problem there.

Czech: Ne, chci platit v české koruně.

dell_2

happiness wrote:

some people say that they are not given a choice by using DCC, here is my say to the contrary.

Forgive me, but SPAM, SPAM, SPAM comes to mind - despite the reply

:mad:

MarkyMarkD

I can't recall anyone ever saying that they were offered the choice of paying in sterling, just that they were presented with a credit card slip already converted into sterling with the lying statement "I've been offered the choice of currency and I've agreed to pay in Sterling" or similar.

And (as I keep on posting) AVIS apply DCC without warning or consent.

Alfie_E

dell wrote:

Forgive me, but SPAM, SPAM, SPAM comes to mind - despite the reply

It's less :spam:, more troll (finds that MSE doesn't have a troll icon ).

InsuranceLiability

.... but why spam a product consumers have no choice in whether they use or not?

and why not do it in correct english?

GlennTheBaker

happiness wrote:

i regarded your question as a compliment since i never thought i could be that smart to invent something. i enjoyed the convenience that DCC provided during my trip in Italy, and that was my say. it is so ok people have different opions toward a certain issue.

I'm sure the banks enjoy the convenience of being able to cream a nice 3% off the transaction too!