Hoi,<br>Credit card cheap ??<br>YOU ARE JOKING<br>Money transfers within Europe are free provided you use the right IBAN etc codes. Credit card can cost anything up to four percent; it is legalised stealing.<br>Thanks,<br>
GerardM<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Delphine Ménard</b> <<a href="mailto:notafishz@gmail.com">notafishz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/1/07, Any File <<a href="mailto:anysomefile@gmail.com">anysomefile@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> > On the other hand, bank transfer is not always the means of payment of<br>> > choice. My point being, the Italians may want bank transfer, as the
<br>> > Germans would, but the French or the Americans would simply never use<br>> > it.<br>><br>> This rise my curiosity. Why this? Because every French has a credit card?<br><br>Yes, and it costs little and it's really handy because debit and
<br>credit card are in the same plastic thing. And our online banking<br>sucks big time, so making an online bank transfer is hell in a box.<br><br>Cultural differences and history are a big part of this "money<br>changing hands" business. There are those who don't like credit cards,
<br>those who don't have them, those who would "never do anything<br>involving money over the internet", those who have never seen or heard<br>of a check and those who can't imagine that checks are not accepted,
<br>those who love cash and those who hate it, those who are paypal<br>freaks, those who don't trust paypal. In short, there are as many ways<br>of "paying" as there are countries and people. And one organisation
<br>cannot accommodate them all.<br><br>We have to draw the line somewhere :-)<br><br>Delphine<br><br>--<br>~notafish<br>NB. This address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails sent to<br>this address will probably get lost.
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