Paying by card at home country, I was charged in GBP

[NFH]

@alessandro

The principle idea of DCC was probably to give the customer a certain security as to what he is eventually charged

The objective of DCC is to scam the customer for more money. Any other explanations given by disingenuous parts of the card industry are just attempts to justify their malpractice.

See a potential solution to this problem at:

Option to disable GBP transactions to block dynamic currency conversion

Many holders of payment cards issued in the UK, including Revolut, have experienced dynamic currency conversion, whereby a merchant converts the transaction currency and amount from the local currency to the currency of the card’s country of issue, in this case to GBP, because Revolut is issued in the UK. This malpractice is particularly prevalent in Spain, where merchants often disingenuously change the transaction currency and amount from EUR to GBP with a markups of up to 7% after the cardho…