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Re: I love debt....
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2016, 08:25:23 AM »
Er, yeah - and also as the article linked points out - the words for debt & guilt are linked (in German)...  I suspect that predates the historic economic crises that the article writes of.

I'm sorry, I didn't check the link you posted. My comment was a bit hastily.  :-\
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Re: I love debt....
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2016, 08:43:55 AM »
I'm in debt to whoever cut this out of the other thread.

OK so we have explained why Germans hate debt and thus credit cards.  We still need to work on why they hide old magazines in basements, but that is for another thread.  So what about the rest of Europe?  I didn't see credit cards being used in the Netherlands (possibly the German reason spilling over) and Belgium.  My Ukrainian born coworkers have been here for years and still can't believe that Americans use credit cards to purchase coffee and other small items. 

Perhaps Americans are the weird ones.  We don't include taxes and fees in our purchase prices.  We absolutely love revolving debt.  Almost every store takes credit cards here.  Actually there is one well established store in the US that doesn't take credit cards.  They also don't give you bags for your groceries and are starting to change the way Americans shop.  You can probably guess the name of the store and the country it comes from.     
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Re: I love debt....
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2016, 10:31:01 AM »
That really ticks me off (and I toned the sentiment down there a lot) when someone produces a credit or debit card to pay for a coffee. The additional time it takes to complete the transaction (after the card is declined because it's bent, or the contact reader in the machine is worn) compared to handing over cash ticks everyone in the queue off too...

Contactless payment is a solution looking for a problem - with the side effect of transferring liability to the cardholder if some criminal element steals the card and uses it (which they'll be able to for at least a couple of transactions before the PIN is required) and for which the transaction limit has gone from £20 to £30 recently...

Then the next thing the banks whine about is people getting into too much debt - open your eyes! Give people easy credit and make it hard to track how much they're spending and they run up debt.
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Re: I love debt....
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2016, 01:20:45 AM »
So if bank transfer is the only option then I have found transferwise to be very good.

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Re: I love debt....
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2016, 01:38:12 AM »
That really ticks me off (and I toned the sentiment down there a lot) when someone produces a credit or debit card to pay for a coffee. The additional time it takes to complete the transaction (after the card is declined because it's bent, or the contact reader in the machine is worn) compared to handing over cash ticks everyone in the queue off too...

The price of coffee in coffee shops ticks me off enough to just not go into them in the first place unless there are social reasons to be there, but that's already another topic. Bent cards and knackered readers aren't especially common in my experience, and the people working in the shops are so used to people paying by card that when you try to pay using cash it ends up taking just as long anyway (initial shock of seeing money, finding the correct till compartment to put individual notes/ coins into, working out how much change to give, working out how the correct amount of change can be given using coins available, handing change over without dropping any of it) and that's without people trying to be helpful by paying with a £10 note AND a 20p coin for something that cost £5.20. That will usually warrant a blank stare for at least 5 seconds before the 20p is returned, and 2 minutes lates, £4.80 in change (if you're lucky).

Personally, I find contactless payment to be especially quick and convenient. But then, I have small kids so when I am ever going to be spending more than £30 on anything fun or interesting.

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Re: I love debt....
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2016, 01:58:46 AM »

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