Foreign credit cards purchases at MEP rate

I used Citibank Visa credit card to recharge my prepaid credit. I was charged in card currency at official rate and few days later, Citibank reimbursed forex difference, so in the end total charges at MEP rate.
 
Chip22 said:
I used Citibank Visa credit card to recharge my prepaid credit. I was charged in card currency at official rate and few days later, Citibank reimbursed forex difference, so in the end total charges at MEP rate.
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So now, Visa uses review like mastercard and blue rate posts after rather than right away? Was the prepaid card loaded online or in-person?
 
Anybody tested out recently using a visa credit card via Apple Pay?
 
Sudovest said:
So now, Visa uses review like mastercard and blue rate posts after rather than right away? Was the prepaid card loaded online or in-person?
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I bought the prepaid credit online. Visa took few days to review the charges. I think different department is handling that. Previously, I have to call them about MEP rate, and they refund the rate difference later. But recently, they just did it automatically but I still have wait a few days.
 
I just checked some recent charges on my Visa cc, and it does seem that they are following Mastercard's example and waiting a few days for things to settle.
 
aidaoaiba said:
I did it on a mastercard. It's done in ARS. Got charged the official rate and was eventually refunded part of it.
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This was with a US Mastercard? Every time I tried with visa it would go pending and then AA said the charge was rejected, even though it wasn’t rejected when I called capital one. I think they don’t want to give local rates to Americans. I paid through the nose in dollars-I wish I knew this worked. Same thing happened with flybondi and jetsmart
 
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