German business practices

[Per Lindgren]

Mihnea Cotet wrote:

>
> Well, as far as Belgium goes, almost all payments like car monthly
> payments, insurance payments, even parking fines, rents and stuff like
> that
> are ALWAYS paid by wire transfers. This is so easy and it costs no
> money....checks used to be pretty popular (especially Eurocheques) but
> now
> they don't seem to be that popular anymore...except for France where
> almost
> everything is paid by checks, even fuel and hotel bills...
> In Belgium we pay almost every immediate payment (like a gas bill or a
> hotel or food) by bank cards. This is also very easy especially when the
> gas station is closed at 2:00 a.m., you CAN pay with your bank card (not
> credit card, this is why strangers are pretty annoyed when the gas
> station
> is closed at a late hour)....

Pretty much the very same situation here in Norway. I hardly carry any
cash with me, the card does it all. And all the bills are paid right
here on the PC, with which I log on to my banks internet systems.

PerL
87 Cq (Urq Light)