[Wikimania-l] Wikimania bank account

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Credit card cheap ??
YOU ARE JOKING
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.
Thanks,
   GerardM

On 3/2/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/1/07, Any File <anysomefile at 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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