On 11/04/15 14:01, IMAP List Administration wrote:
Transfer Costs More Than Refund
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The next missive from openbsdstore.com was:
Hopefully you should have received the €15 sent by post - unfortunately we had
to send it in this way, as our bank wanted to charge us €20 to send it to you
electronically!
This can't be happening.... And in fact an envelope containing a 10 and a 5 euro
note arrived somewhat later.
As a little defence to the OpenBSD store guys: the banking system in the
UK is by far the crappiest I have seen in whole of Europe. The banks are
all intentionally incompetent and try to fool and trick you into using
non-SEPA style money transfers wherever they can.
Most UK citizens, even online shops, are misinformed and mistreated by
their banks, with the result that the banks can charge horrendous fees
and cheat on exchange rates.
A little "funny" experience: my online banking system from HSBC shuts
down accepting SEPA money transfers "outside of regular business hours".
I have to wait until Monday morning to _enter_ a SEPA money transfer. It
looks like their CPUs get the weekend off. That is how crappy the UK
banking system is. And the most scary thing: the people here think this
is normal ...
Bernd
