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Tips on living in Germany
Martin wrote:
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:00:29 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote in : To prevent merchants from circumventing this charge, the contract says they're not allowed to price goods differently if paid by CC card, But...don't airlines (like Ryanair) charge additionally for credit card use? And I've seen signs at fuel stations, saying that they would charge 50 cents or so, if the customer wants to use debit/credit card and the total amount is less than 15 euros. If this is true, they are either in breach of their contract, or they have some exemption written into. Ryanair and others charge extra if one pays with some credit cards. And many airlines charge different fees depending on the type of card used- e.g. maestro instead of mastercard. Even some rail companies do this in the UK. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "The fact is that when I compose I never think of and never have thought of meeting the listener." -George Perle (RIP 2009) |
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Tips on living in Germany
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:52:01 +0100, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:41:18 +0100, Erick T. Barkhuis -o-m wrote: Keith Anderson: That's the thing (compared with the UK, for instance) - many German c/cs have an annual fee. Got mine from Gebührenfrei: http://www.gebuhrenfrei.com/ How does Gebührenfrei.com do business? Is it the high rates they get on not timely payed amounts, or what? Sollzins, Einkäufe (Teilzahlung, ab 17,9% p.a. Effektivzins*) pro Monat 1,38 % Sollzins, Bargeld (25,9% p.a. Effektivzins) pro Monat 1,94 % Probably ) I only use the thing for the sake of convenience, e.g. booking flights or paying for goods and services whilst visiting the UK (usually hotels, Marks & Spencer, rail travel and Indian food - lots and lots of Indian food....'cos "Indian" restaurants in Germany are usually rubbish compared with Anglo-Indian in the UK). Anyway, I pay the whole lot off and don't incur interest. A chicken tikka dhansak, a chicken tikka dhansak, my kingdom for a chicken tikka dhansak! Keith (formerly of Bristol UK) now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen |
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Tips on living in Germany
Keith Anderson:
A chicken tikka dhansak, a chicken tikka dhansak, my kingdom for a chicken tikka dhansak! Taj Mahal München. If your Kingdom for such meal is at stake, the trip to München will be not too much of a problem. -- Erick |
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