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SUShuaweie5830
post Feb 17 2017, 03:13 PM

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niamah so angry with airbnb now, my credit card company say the transaction shown is not final, there are this international transaction fees involved.... about 0.8% per transaction, good thing is this time the CC company willing to absorb it and refund me

niahmah nvr know airbnb is this lousy, nvr encounter this problem with other merchant transaction before , airbnb is the first time i kena .....

anyone else kena before ?

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post Feb 23 2017, 04:18 PM

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QUOTE(munkeyflo @ Feb 23 2017, 03:34 PM)
This one has something to do with the bank your credit card was issued from too.

I notice with CIMB bank, there usually is this transaction fee charged. Sometimes I pay RM2.00 at some online shop and get charge RM2.xx on my card. Doubt it's an airbnb thing. My airbnb all payment made in euro, of course the final RM amount is an estimate, it's based on the current exchange rate your bank decides to charge you plus whatever extra fees that they wanna impose on you.

This is something that most cc users know though. You can check in the cc threads on the cc subforum.
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The CC bank say is because international transaction fee, which I doubt so, I done lots of online transaction too , while this first time encounter such thing

I knw wat u wanna say, maybe the price in EURO OR USD , we pay in RM Credit card, so additional cherges from there due to conversion etc

My case is different, I use airbnb in SGD dollar rate and pay in SGD . It is aldy a confirmed rate from AIRBNB website.

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post Feb 23 2017, 05:12 PM

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QUOTE(munkeyflo @ Feb 23 2017, 05:08 PM)
Ya exchange rate is one thing. But there's another transaction fee also. From my experience, it happens when I use my CIMB card for online purchases. Even if the website shows the fixed price in RM2.00 and I approve the transaction for RM2.00 on the website, my statement will show RM2.xx when the transaction shows on the bank statement.

Airbnb is all billed in Euro, as far as I'm concern.
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u think Tis is normal for the extra charge ? Did you check with the merchant or the bank ?

So far Agoda, booking.com, airlines, for all my transaction don't have this extra charges, as long as the agreed amount are tally with my credit card currency.

Suddenly this airbnb gv me headache..... so r u saying as long as we r using airbnb , the agreed amount is not final, and still subject to additional charges coz they based on euro dollar ? Then this is one shit hole of trap , not dealing with them anymore in future.

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post Feb 23 2017, 11:37 PM

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QUOTE(munkeyflo @ Feb 23 2017, 06:35 PM)
Cross Border Fee: https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=2519936&hl (Even charged in RM, still will have cross border fee, bank has confirmed this)
Foreign Exchange Transaction: https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1845691

On your statement, was it a SGD transaction or foreign currency transaction?

And yes, as far as I know, Airbnb transactions are all charged in Euro. They have different currency on their website just for your reference but the final charges are all in Euro. I thought this was clearly stated on their payment page. My latest Airbnb transaction was few months ago la.


Okay my latest transactions with Airbnb, the receipts were in the credit card currency. But as usual, my cc statement is higher than their billed receipt.
My previous previous Airbnb transactions done is January 2016 was billed and charged in Euro. I guess they changed that.

Well, it's not much difference for me. Plus RM30-50 or so.
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damn SCB high on the list

Now I suspect is the bank problem coz I did use SCB on my airbnb booking

Fuk them

 

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