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Well OT - Online hotel booking gone wrong
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:55:18 -0000, "John" wrote:
John wrote: Roger Mills wrote: In an earlier contribution to this discussion, Andrew Gabriel wrote: For future reference, never allow hotels or any foreign business to do the currency conversion before charging to your card. Always have them charge in local currency and have the card company do the conversion. Otherwise you will be ripped off by the local merchant services provider with terrible rates (which includes a commission payback to the merchant for managing to persuade you to use their terrible rates). And also, whenever you have to pay for anything in a currency other than Sterling, use a Nationwide credit card - 'cos they don't charge you any commission on the currency conversion. Thanks very much for all your replies guys, your help is appreciated. John. Bad form to reply to one's own post etc., but I just thought I'd let you know that they sent an email this morning saying that they have refunded the difference and it'll appear on my credit card statement shortly  )John. Good result !!! |
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