{"id":120,"date":"2004-10-13T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-10-13T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T14:33:41","slug":"banks-are-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/banks-are-scum\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks are scum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I wanted to get a copy of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandy.com\/1\/film3.cfm?id=3147\">Rubber Side Down<\/a>&#8220;, a film about the 2001 Cycle Messenger World Championships by Tristan Verboven. I email Tristan and he&#8217;s more than happy to send a copy to me:<\/p>\n<p><i>Thanks for your email. We have never gotten an order from Australia. If you don&#8217;t mind my asking, how did you hear about the film? I have some copies left and would be glad to send you one on DVD or VHS for CAD$25 plus $10 for shipping. Please send an international money order.. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Well.. I just got back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auspost.com.au\">Post Office<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westpac.com.au\">Bank<\/a>. The international money order from the post office costs almost $10 and can only be written for $USD, which means I&#8217;d have to include extra money to cover the $USD->$CAD exchange at the Canadian end. The woman at the post office agreed that the cost was ridiculous and suggested I try the bank for an international bank cheque.<\/p>\n<p>One of these cheques for Canadian dollars costs me $20!! $20 just for the frickin&#8217; cheque paper! <\/p>\n<p>She then tells me an international fund transfer (electronic) costs $30!! WTF?! How can altering a few digits on a computer cost $30? How can it cost more than a piece of paper that achieves the same thing? Totally bloody ridiculous if you ask me. So I pass up on the order, simply because the fucking banks make it too expensive to transfer money. <\/p>\n<p>This means I have to go to Canada now. <\/p>\n<p>What? You think I wont justify a holiday to the other side of the world just to buy a DVD? <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I wanted to get a copy of &#8220;Rubber Side Down&#8220;, a film about the 2001 Cycle Messenger World Championships by Tristan Verboven. I email Tristan and he&#8217;s more than happy to send a copy to me: Thanks for your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/banks-are-scum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}