[ILUG-Social] Hitting back at banks..

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject:	[ILUG-Social] Hitting back at banks..
> > 
> > Afternoon gents... I wonder if any of you saw the article in the Sunday
> > Times.
> > Basically the gist is they are trying to get everyone to write 5 cheques
> > for 1p
> > to friends on April 1st, IIRC the article said that it costs the banks
> > roughly
> > 27p to process each cheque.. thus it costs the banks a fortune... 
> > 
> Except they'll happily charge you for that prank, so the only one who
> loses
> out is you :o)
> 
> Proinnsias
> 
> Nice idea though, anyone with "free banking" sould do it, although the
> banks
> would just laugh it off and charge you "abnormal transaction fees" or some
> such !!