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Banks, malls and cellphones
Oct. 3rd, 2006 01:44 pmMall. School Holidays. Bad idea.
Banked a $5 cheque. Asked the bank please not to turn my fee exempt account into a $5/month account when it's cheaper for me just to have the fee exemption lifted and stay with my low-transaction account (which they still offer). They'll do their best, since the change was a) generated by head office and b) scheduled further ahead (end of the month) than they can see on their system. I'll check at the end of the month :-\
Visited Telecom and Vodaphone. Waited 30min in telecom (it was busy) to be pointed at the hotphone to 123 for my enquiry, to be bounced around three operators before I got one that know that the answer to my question was "no".
Vodaphone was much quieter, but I got the same answer.
I understand that it is entirely not economic to be sending out printed statements for prepaid accounts, but I'd be perfectly happy to have a dollar or two per month deducted from my balance for the option, or even for an email statement (which would be much more convenient in many ways).
Guess I start up another spreadsheet to keep track of time and money spent on business calls. It's entirely not worth changing to a monthly account with either of them (Vodaphone has the better option according to the plan summaries I picked up) at this stage - I'd be spending more than I spend on monthly top-ups before traffic charges, and too much to make the monthly statement (which is all I want) worth it.
Banked a $5 cheque. Asked the bank please not to turn my fee exempt account into a $5/month account when it's cheaper for me just to have the fee exemption lifted and stay with my low-transaction account (which they still offer). They'll do their best, since the change was a) generated by head office and b) scheduled further ahead (end of the month) than they can see on their system. I'll check at the end of the month :-\
Visited Telecom and Vodaphone. Waited 30min in telecom (it was busy) to be pointed at the hotphone to 123 for my enquiry, to be bounced around three operators before I got one that know that the answer to my question was "no".
Vodaphone was much quieter, but I got the same answer.
I understand that it is entirely not economic to be sending out printed statements for prepaid accounts, but I'd be perfectly happy to have a dollar or two per month deducted from my balance for the option, or even for an email statement (which would be much more convenient in many ways).
Guess I start up another spreadsheet to keep track of time and money spent on business calls. It's entirely not worth changing to a monthly account with either of them (Vodaphone has the better option according to the plan summaries I picked up) at this stage - I'd be spending more than I spend on monthly top-ups before traffic charges, and too much to make the monthly statement (which is all I want) worth it.
