Can openbsdstore start taking bitcoin? --- âLanie, Iâm going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. Thatâs worth going to jail for. Thatâs worth anything.â - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Bernd Schoeller <ber...@fams.de> wrote: > On 11/04/15 14:01, IMAP List Administration wrote: > >> Transfer Costs More Than Refund >> -------------------------------------------- >> The next missive from openbsdstore.com was: >> >>> Hopefully you should have received the ââ¬15 sent by post - >>> unfortunately we had >>> to send it in this way, as our bank wanted to charge us ââ¬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
