I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash ya got
Strange Thing #26: Fee-less ATMs (or cashpoints or hole-in-the-walls as they are called here.)
Meaning, if I use another bank's ATM, I am not monetarily raped. I can use my Natwest card at any other bank that is not Natwest for free . This is astounding to me, and unheard of in the States. There, I had Bank of America. If I used a non-Bank of America ATM, that ATM would charge me US$2 just for the pleasure of walking up and putting my card in. Then BofA would charge me another US$2 for not using their ATM. So the entire transaction would cost four dollars. What a waste.
Freedom really is a beautiful thing. *sniff*
Meaning, if I use another bank's ATM, I am not monetarily raped. I can use my Natwest card at any other bank that is not Natwest for free . This is astounding to me, and unheard of in the States. There, I had Bank of America. If I used a non-Bank of America ATM, that ATM would charge me US$2 just for the pleasure of walking up and putting my card in. Then BofA would charge me another US$2 for not using their ATM. So the entire transaction would cost four dollars. What a waste.
Freedom really is a beautiful thing. *sniff*
yeah...that all changed back in '96 or '97 when the banking industry lobby got into the pocket of Congress and legislated that the convenience charge was legal...You just have to love how legislation is for sale!! Democracy in the US ended a long, long time ago...
Posted by
John Chimpo |
8:32 pm, February 03, 2005
I need help, e-mail me.
Alice
P.S. By the way, have you gotten the postcards that I mailed you?
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:12 pm, February 08, 2005
Strange thing #403....Shut up.
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:52 am, February 12, 2005
You got a table and chairs, you gotta dinette set. You gotta table and no chairs, you got dick!
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:04 pm, February 28, 2005
Ollie's right about British ATMs introducing charges - and it's not just the non-bank (convenience-store type) ATMs, nor is Scotland free from them; I seem to recall my mother getting a very nasty shock when finding her Bank of Scotland card incurs charges to take money out of a Royal Bank of Scotland ATM.
Meanwhile, some banks in the US do provide fee-free ATM usage - mostly the ones without their own large ATM networks, for obvious reasons: turn their weakness (their customers can't find their own ATMs) into a strength (use ANY ATM you like anyway). Nice.
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:36 pm, October 23, 2005