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I've traveled to more than a dozen countries over the past two years and I've NEVER seen an ATM that asks me what currency I want to be charged in...

• tamping 14y ago
  Same here - I can only recall one point at which I was asked.
• switch007 14y ago
  Weird, where did you go? Every ATM I used in Spain for 10 months asked me. When paying by card, I always asked them to charge me in Euros and never had a problem (expect for my sketchy Spanish). I've had similar experiences in France, Italy and Germany.
• yardie 14y ago
  This is a more recent "service" that some banks are offering. I've seen it around the UK/Eurozone but rarely further than that. I've always said no to these screens because my bank doesn't charge me a commission on foreign withdrawals so I have no need for the 2% local markup.
• CaptainZapp 14y ago
  Citibank does this on their Prague ATMs. One look and I saw the massive rip-off for what it was(conversion from Czech Crowns into Swiss Francs) and avoid Citi ATMs like the plague since then. As I recall the difference on withdrawing the equivalent of 500EUR would have been an additional ~50EUR for the convenience. Thanks, but my local bank does such conversions just fine.