Re: [luv-talk] Any USB 3G broadband usable under Linux?
Lindsay Sprinter <zlinw@mcmedia.com.au> wrote:
Like all (most?) people I am limited with what I can do by personal choices. I do not have any kind of plastic money and I do NOT do direct debit. This is because I have had the unfortunate luck to have two of these go astray. The second being the killer as it involved alarge sum of money ($6000) and both financial institutions refused to believe a problem existed and it took over 4 months to correct a problem that was the fault of one of the said institutions.
I solve this to my satisfaction by maintaining a debit card rather than a credit card, and by transferring funds to the card regularly, in amounts that don't exceed what I plan to spend. The effect is to limit the damage that can be caused by erroneous transactions. I also prefer to spend my own money rather than to borrow and then pay it back with interest added.
At 06:34 PM 7/14/2012, Jason White wrote:
I solve this to my satisfaction by maintaining a debit card rather than a credit card, and by transferring funds to the card regularly, in amounts that don't exceed what I plan to spend.
I use a debit card as well, same deal, I can control how much is in the account at any time. Internet banking allows me to transfer funds on an as needed basis.
The effect is to limit the damage that can be caused by erroneous transactions. I also prefer to spend my own money rather than to borrow and then pay it back with interest added.
Agree totally! 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
Tony Langdon <vk3jed@gmail.com> wrote:
I use a debit card as well, same deal, I can control how much is in the account at any time. Internet banking allows me to transfer funds on an as needed basis.
Yes, exactly. Another strategy (not for the same purpose though) is to maintain an access account that can be used for receiving payments. The account details can then be given to employers or to people for whom one does contract work without disclosing the number of an account that has significant amounts of money in it. It's then a simple matter of transferring money that arrives in the access account into another account that has a higher interest rate, or into some other form of investment portfolio.
At 07:20 PM 7/14/2012, Jason White wrote:
Another strategy (not for the same purpose though) is to maintain an access account that can be used for receiving payments.
The account details can then be given to employers or to people for whom one does contract work without disclosing the number of an account that has significant amounts of money in it. It's then a simple matter of transferring money that arrives in the access account into another account that has a higher interest rate, or into some other form of investment portfolio.
That's pretty much what I do. Accessible and flexible high interest accounts are readily available these days. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
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