At 10:30 PM 1/10/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >On 1/10/2013 9:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > "The challenge now is educating Australians that small purchases like > > heading down the road to grab a coffee and a paper can be made with greater > > convenience by leaving the cash at home," Grobler said. > >"The challenge now is educating governments and corporations that small >electronic payments can leave ruddy great data trails that many people >think governments and corporations will misuse" Bernard said.
I also have a limit of the number of transactions I can do in a month before the bank starts charging me for this cashless "privilege". Plus they are now creaming off 3.5% on the exchange rate plus a fee to do it, which is barbaric. Even the financial commentators are criticising this greed. I've found a possible way around the latter if anyone is interested. Get in touch offlist. Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
