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gemfyre ([personal profile] gemfyre) wrote2002-11-18 04:48 pm

More reason to keep all my money in a piggy bank

Bank West informed me today that there is now a $7.50 fee for changing foreign money. What an utter load of crap, there goes me selling to people in the U.S. and liking the fact cuz I get double what they pay due to our pitiful exchange rate.

They've also recently introduced a fee for transactions online, so I get slugged everytime I make a direct deposit for an eBay win.

And I got charged $3.25 for an "electronic transaction fee". Apparently EFTPOS also counts towards your 20 a month electronic transactions, I'm sure it used to be just ATMs and they changed it without letting me know. So much for just using the card so I didn't need to carry around cash.

Banks suck, one day everyone will just have had enough and withdraw all their money and the banks will be like "but what did we do??"

Stupid banks.

Oh and about the song below.
What the fuck does "bootylicious" mean and WHY does she sing "I don't think your ready for this jelly."?? Why, because it's not set yet? because it's a flavour you won't like?? weirdness, it's only in my head cuz that teeny weeny chick at karaoke sung it and did it really well and that drunk guy did his little dance to it.

[identity profile] chrissywoo.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
I agree, I think the song is ridiculous.

I heard once though that the "jelly" isn't for real. Apparently "jelly" is their word for a woman's sexiness.

Go figure.

[identity profile] just-laura.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
I've no clue about the song Bootylicious except that up in this cizz-ountry we use jelly to mean the stuff like marmalade or preserves. . . like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Not that that makes more sense.

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
hehe yeah
In the U.S. Jelly is Jello and Jam is Jelly.

*confuzzling*

[identity profile] odindeathcrush.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
no....
jelly is jelly, jam is jam and jello is jello and preserves are yucky!

What the fuck does "bootylicious" mean and WHY does she sing "I don't think your ready for this jelly."??

oh good lord...
booty + delicious = bootylicious
jelly dervied from jelly roll, old old old school slang for...you guessed it!
haven't you ever heard any muddy waters? t-bone walker?
old school blues...we need to get you flava-rized!

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
old blues can be cool

but this new R&B stuff just doesn't appeal to me at all.

*goes back to her 80's pop, classic rock and old skool grunge*

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[identity profile] just-laura.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Furthermore, jelly is Jello regardless of whether it's Jello brand or not! You could have Knox Unflavored Jello!

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
you weird Americans *rolls eyes* :)

[identity profile] odindeathcrush.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
don't you have more than one bank in town?
there is a transaction fee everywhere, almost, to convert money, but our bank will let you open a u.s. only account for free. wacky eh? to funnel your us money into, then just transfer from the us to your reg account for no charge. it's nuts. we are only charged if they have to exchange it before our eyes...like it costs to perform a magic trick like that, bastards! also, you can tell people it costs _this much_ to exchange us for aussie, so include it in your auction terms that people have to send international (meaning aussie m.o.s) or they will need to add in extra for the exchange...lots of sellers do it.

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2002-11-18 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
yeah I'll prolly just hafta start charging the fee, but that sucks. I really liked my bank because it didn't charge for stuff like exchanging currency but now Bank West is getting just as crap as all the banks on Australia.

[identity profile] firvulag.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
you really need to go in and bitch about most of the fees your getting cos your account is sposed to be a fee "free" student account. i know it isnt totally fee free and stuff, but some of the rediculous fees your getting aren't stuff that are on the student accounts at commies or nats

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[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2002-11-19 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
not really

only fee on the actual account is the electronic transaction one. I get 20 free transactions before they start charging me. I just thought EFTs didn't count, only ATMs.

The exchanging currency fee has nothing to do with what account I have, every poor bugger gets slugged with that if they wanna exchange currency.

My bank is a damn site better than yours ;)