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Payment terminals will usually recognize a foreign card when you insert/swipe it and ask if you would like the payment charged in the card currency or the local currency. You're right that it's not legal for a merchant to make that selection for the card user, but I've seen it done in many...

This is logical in theory, but all it would take is for a seller in Argentina to press USD when processing a payment for you to be charged the official rate, which from my experience of traveling abroad, sellers do very often. In practice, two completely separate rates for card payment...

That's the thing though -- they were artificially decoupled on Jan 28, with USD to ARS rates frozen for 3 days now. I doubt different banks and issuers are supposed to know how much to charge people and how to convert, considering there's been no announcement. Might as well just wait until...

There's no need to speculate on this further. Check the rate on this calculator daily before going out to use your credit card -- when Visa card was giving the better rate it was reflected on this site. https://usa.visa.com/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html

Which exchange rate is Visa basing their $1 USD to ~$305 ARS conversion off of? Or is it some type of agreement with which they offer a unique rate that isn't quite as good as Blue or MEP? I'm currently in the US and just bought some Buquebus tickets online with a Visa CC and was charged at that...