[geeks] Worst. Ad. Evar.

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 @ 12:28 +0100, Michael Vergallen said:

> Yes ...however Maestro is the same as Switch but valid for Europe also 
> there is Bankcontact in Belgium that is equivalent to Switch in the UK. 
> And we also have Proton ( electronic change) The advantage with debit 
> cards is not requiring that a person writes a cheque in a store that  
> reduces the  amount of paperwork that a store has to deal with. In 
> Belgium we don't use cheque anymore.

Of course, if we continue along this path, there will be a lot of
pressure to eliminate cash too, which IMHO would be a bad thing.



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