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From: jeremyrh.geo on 29 May 2007 05:01 On 29 mei, 10:56, Martin <m...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > Have you sorted out your camera? > There's a long article about consumer guarantee rights in my local newspaper > today. No, not yet. I agreed they could send it back to Olympus to be assessed, and I'm confident it will be sorted eventually. I don't need it right now, as my opportunities for snorkelling here are a bit limited, and the opportunities for snorkelling in water clear enough to be worth taking a camera are more limited still. I bought it from cameranu.nl, and they have been good in the past. They are aware that I am considering dropping 2K Euros on a lens, so they may be inclined to give me the benefit of the doubt :-) B;
From: jeremyrh.geo on 29 May 2007 05:13 On 29 mei, 11:08, Martin <m...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > Along with many Dutch people we will be closing several ABN Amro accounts if > Barclays takes them over. I won't - at least not immediately (for one thing, I imagine the paperwork would be horrendous !!). Barclays may not influence ABN Amro's daily operations that much. For example, HSBC are quite different from First Direct. B;
From: d4g4h4 on 29 May 2007 05:45 Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: > On Mon, 28 May 2007 22:55:53 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ > chancellor (*)) wrote: > > >Martin <me(a)address.invalid> wrote: [] > >> Care to explain how David's the bank makes money? > > > >I think it's quite obvious how they make money. > > It may be to you, it isn't to me. Somewhere there is a foreign exchange > department earning zero income. Er, no- they earn plenty of money on foreign exchange when people go into the high street bank to pick up money, but the main answer is that they make plenty of money because they're a bank. (I think the percentage cut for ATM transactions is one applied by Visa- I don't know that Nationwide gets it.) Nationwide isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart- presumably the see it as a way to attract customers- it's the only reason I opened an account with them- I don't leave much money in it, usually- my partner moved his _main_ account to them because of this. -- (*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient." Pres. Carter on Pres. Blair- May, 2007
From: d4g4h4 on 29 May 2007 05:45 <jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On 29 mei, 10:49, Martin <m...(a)address.invalid> wrote: [] > > The ECB gave no nominal rate for April 6-9 inclusive, it was a long weekend. > > The rate on 5th April was 0.67970 the rate on 10th April was 0.68030 > > You really have been in Holland too long:-) - the difference on > David's transaction was 3p. If he feels strongly about that I invite > him to collect the change down the back of my sofa - it will more than > compensate. I throw away more than that in change in a regular day of shopping. If I hand over �10 for a 9.99 purchase, I don't take the change. Waste of time, and I resent the 9.99 philosophy- I'm thinking �10, so that's what I pay! :) -- (*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient." Pres. Carter on Pres. Blair- May, 2007
From: William Black on 29 May 2007 05:59
"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:1hyvezf.1pvli9z1xftv9tN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk... > <jeremyrh.geo(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On 29 mei, 10:49, Martin <m...(a)address.invalid> wrote: > [] >> > The ECB gave no nominal rate for April 6-9 inclusive, it was a long >> > weekend. >> > The rate on 5th April was 0.67970 the rate on 10th April was 0.68030 >> >> You really have been in Holland too long:-) - the difference on >> David's transaction was 3p. If he feels strongly about that I invite >> him to collect the change down the back of my sofa - it will more than >> compensate. > > I throw away more than that in change in a regular day of shopping. If I > hand over �10 for a 9.99 purchase, I don't take the change. Waste of > time, and I resent the 9.99 philosophy- I'm thinking �10, so that's what > I pay! :) The reason people charge the 99p is not to make life difficult for the customer or to make things look cheaper. It is to make sure that the cashier opens the till and offers you the change If the item was �1 it would be just too easy to take the �1 and not ring it into the till and pocket the money. The same applies if the item is �1,000 and �999.99 -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea. |