Comments on: Eftpos

By: Bonus bwin

Bonus bwin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:36:42 +0000

Seasons greetings to all of you and best wishes for the coming year 2010. Great way to explain it. Can’t say more than to appreciate what you are penned down. can you show how to grab your rss feed? I couldn’t find how

By: Nix

Nix — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:17:53 +0000

Not sure about tech companies, but other ones…. remember McDonalds Gourmet dinners? Very briefly, at very few Maccas restaurants.

By: Dr Jekyll

Dr Jekyll — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:02:36 +0000

If some farty retailer wont round down $100-07c I always pay a $100 cash and the rest on EFT-POS, Please!!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:40:44 +0000

Except: Chip+Pin is a pain in the arse with offline transactions, as you’ll find 4 days after you bought that Coke at the local Tesco the transaction comes in at midnight, putting your account into overdraft.

Shortly after your next 5 days worth of Costa coffees come in as well, tipping your account further into over draft.

Halifax had the nerve to charge me £300 in overdraft fees for 4 transactions totaling less than £6.

Eftpos FTW!

By: DjRob

DjRob — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:24:13 +0000

Not guinea pigs…more like the Huia, or an even more closer to home animal allegory, the Kiwi Hmmm, but there has to be something in the fact that we’re the smallest mothertongue English-speaking country on Earth

I guess it’s easy to treat us like those hi tech villages they set up in Japan, which were originally for the scientists to live and work in, but ended up being the subjects of covert Scientific experiments

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:23:49 +0000

….and how about transfers taking overnight/over the weekend if sent between banks? It’s like sending an email, but it taking as long as “snail mail” to get where it’s going. It’s a hassle in the convenience of your own home.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:44:14 +0000

The Interact system (similar to Eftpos) has existed in Canada for a very long time. It was actually nice to come to New Zealand and discover that they had such a system because we’ve been to the UK and thought their banking system was barely out of the middle ages. Same goes for the US which still heavily uses cheques.

By: Selwyn Nogood

Selwyn Nogood — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:47:29 +0000

Or was it New Plymouth?

I always get them confused…

By: Selwyn Nogood

Selwyn Nogood — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:46:56 +0000

Hard to know. The same thing used to be said of Palmerston North, that it was a perfect ‘microcosym’, by gender, race, socio-economic status etc, and was therefore a popular location for sample testing.

If anywhere needed to propogate a good myth to boost it’s sense of sense of self-worth, it would be Palmerston North.

Otherwise known as “A good place to go to die” (John Cleese)

By: William

William — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:07:22 +0000

But the question remains, is NZ a double-guinea-pig-island, or is it a myth?

Do tech companies really try out new stuff here? (apart from eftpos that is which, I think, went to Aus at about the same time).