On 3/2/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/1/07, Any File <anysomefile@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On the other hand, bank transfer is not always the means of payment of
> > choice. My point being, the Italians may want bank transfer, as the
> > Germans would, but the French or the Americans would simply never use
> > it.
>
> This rise my curiosity. Why this? Because every French has a credit card?

Yes, and it costs little and it's really handy because debit and
credit card are in the same plastic thing. And our online banking
sucks big time, so making an online bank transfer is hell in a box.

Cultural differences and history are a big part of this "money
changing hands" business. There are those who don't like credit cards,
those who don't have them, those who would "never do anything
involving money over the internet", those who have never seen or heard
of a check and those who can't imagine that checks are not accepted,
those who love cash and those who hate it, those who are paypal
freaks, those who don't trust paypal. In short, there are as many ways
of "paying" as there are countries and people. And one organisation
cannot accommodate them all.

We have to draw the line somewhere :-)

Delphine

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