Originally Posted by
mrpickles
Nobody is "footing the bill":
Airlines make money by selling the points to the credit card departments of the banks hoping that those points will expire.
Not CONTINENTAL :-::-::-::-::-: or DELTA! :-::-::-::-:
And some folk get upt to 2% or 3% cash back rather than FFMs. ^^^
Originally Posted by
mrpickles
Tellers should be happy because they have a job to begin with, counting the coins when we make deposits.
They'd have a job anyway. And some of them, like a lot of folk, don't want to put in any more effort than they have to...
Originally Posted by
mrpickles
Costco makes money every time I fill my gas tank to go to the bank and make a deposit.
You need to learn to be greener and combine the trip with other errands rather than just running to the bank.
Originally Posted by
mrpickles
THE BANKS ARE MAKING MONEY BECAUSE THEY ARE CHARGING HOMEOWNERS, CREDIT CARD CUSTOMERS AND EVERYONE ELSE > 5-24% FOR MONEY THAT THEY GET ELECTRONICALLY FROM THE FED FOR NEXT TO NOTHING. (<1%)
They're banks. They do this anyway.
Originally Posted by
mrpickles
They only one getting the shaft is the customers buying the coins being forced to play this ridiculous game of ordering every 10 days.
Only in terms of we can't make as much as fast as before. The fact that the government, a/k/a the "black hole" of the money universe, is allowing this at all is amazing in and of itself! ^