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