Convenient for whom, exactly?
You know how if you go to a bank machine that isn't of your own bank, you get charged a "convenience" fee? Well, Mike stumbled across a brilliant way to bypass this — or, at the very least, get something in return for this fee. We now go to Shoppers Drug Mart, purchase a pop for $1.25 (coincidentally, the same cost of the convenience fee), and ask for a cash-back on our respective bank cards. Voilà! Free pop! And on the topic of convenience fees, I'd like to point out (in case the banks are reading this) that I do not find it convenient to pay a fee to use a bank machine that was once free.
Posted at 16:30
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A previous landlord of mine had done a sort of drop-out from the corporate world long before I took up tenancy in his house. He told me one time the straw the broke his ability to stay in the world of offices: while working for CIBC, he watched as the company sent observers to branches to track how much dirt each customer brought in so that a charge could be incorporated into service fees that would specifically pay for the cleaning costs. I'm surprised we got free inter-bank ATM use for as long as we did, knowing that this noise was happening in the late 70s. - Todd, Thursday, February 10, 2005 |  |
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