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Re: [72attendees] Credit card charges at CityWest

Dale Worley <dworley@pingtel.com> Tue, 05 August 2008 13:38 UTC

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From: Dale Worley <dworley@pingtel.com>
To: Vijay Devarapalli <dvijay@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [72attendees] Credit card charges at CityWest
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:00 -0700, Vijay Devarapalli wrote:
> I was looking at my receipts today and noticed that the CityWest hotel
> charged me in US dollars for the accommodation. They did not charge me
> in Euros. For the exchange rate, they conveniently picked 1.6171. The
> actual conversion rate on Friday was 1.57.
> 
> I am not really sure why they didn't charge me in Euros. The
> corresponding US dollar amount would have shown up on my credit card
> statement anyway. For four nights of stay that came to $26 more.
> 
> Did anyone else experience this?

They offered to charge me in dollars, but I declined, since I think my
credit card offers a better conversion rate.  I suspect that it is a
clumsy error on their part, as the failings of CityWest seem to be
mistakes rather than deliberate venality.  I would start by calling them
and asking for the charges to be corrected into euros.

Dale


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