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Andy Glew wrote:

Giro fees are on the order of cents per payment. I pay NOK 2 for a regular
giro, that is around 26 cents US.

Debit cards ride on top of this system. A GSM-based debit terminal costs
NOK 2200; (USD 280) and it is yours to keep. The bank subscription for the
account you validate to is around NOK 180/month, USD 21. The fee per
transction varies a little, but you can get as low as NOK 6 per transaction,
GSM costs included. That is around USD 0.85.


These are very high transaction costs!

It is perfectly possible to get down to the 10 cents (NOK 0.65) range
(or lower) if you handle more than 100 K transactions/year.

With a GSM terminal you'll normally have to pay the cell phone
connection charge of about 5-6 cents, but here you'll also be able to
get further down with a high-volume setup.

Using GPRS is probably better, that removes the setup fee.

I routinely buy lunch at McDonald's or BurgerVille with a credit card.
That's 0.87 cents for the hamburger (more at McDonald's). I doubt
that BurgerVille pays 0.85 cents in transaction charges.

I would hope that European debit card transaction costs are lower in
general - probably are for big companies, eh?

Indeed they are.

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In the US it once was typical to see "No credit card transactions
below 10$". Now it is much less common.


Right, I remember those from 91/92 when I lived there.

Terje

PS. Happy New Year everyone!

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Andy Glew wrote:
Giro fees are on the order of cents per payment. I pay NOK 2 for a regular
giro, that is around 26 cents US.

Debit cards ride on top of this system. A GSM-based debit terminal costs
NOK 2200; (USD 280) and it is yours to keep. The bank subscription for the
account you validate to is around NOK 180/month, USD 21. The fee per
transction varies a little, but you can get as low as NOK 6 per transaction,
GSM costs included. That is around USD 0.85.

These are very high transaction costs!

Well, they are list prices posted for small companies. J.Q. Consultant
and his dog can get these rates.

I routinely buy lunch at McDonald's or BurgerVille with a credit card.
That's 0.87 cents for the hamburger (more at McDonald's). I doubt
that BurgerVille pays 0.85 cents in transaction charges.

I would hope that European debit card transaction costs are lower in
general - probably are for big companies, eh?

If you run your own network, terminals and deliver transactions all in
one place you will get a large break on prices. ISTR the floor
of debit card pricing is around NOK 1.20 ( around 17 cents US).
This is the kind of rates large corporations with lots and lots
of small transactions, and their own network and terminals will pay.

Your transaction count would have to be in the hundreds of thousands
per month though. A large power and cable TV utility pays around
1.60 (22 c US) for transactions.

-- mrr

If you run your own network, terminals and deliver transactions all in
one place you will get a large break on prices. ISTR the floor
of debit card pricing is around NOK 1.20 ( around 17 cents US).
This is the kind of rates large corporations with lots and lots
of small transactions, and their own network and terminals will pay.

Your transaction count would have to be in the hundreds of thousands
per month though. A large power and cable TV utility pays around
1.60 (22 c US) for transactions.

About 10 years ago I was at a university computer user group talk from a guy who said
"First I [he] did the check verification system - 0.50$US/transaction."
"Then I [he] did the VISA phone verification system - 0.05$US/transaction."
"Next I [he] want to get transaction costs down to 0.005$US/transaction,
and then 0.0005$US/transaction."

Unfortunately, I cannot remember the guy's name. Can anyone guess who it was?
I think he was talking about VeriFone and VeriCheck.

He made this sort of financial stuff sound really interesting.

This motherboard is 6 months old. Recently it has taken to no-reboot and I need
to switch off at the back of the case and leave the computer off for 10-20
seconds in order for the boot to occur.

Because of that I have looked for bios update and installed same, however with
the same fault occuring. I have switched off silent boot and see 2 lines only.

The first is "Intel Capable EMT3T....................................."
and the second is
"DDR2-533 -- operating in Dual Channel Memory Mode."

The computer goes no further until I switch off the power. The fault is
intermittent and may not occur for 2 or 3 days but when it does it keeps
occuring with every re-boot.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

nesredep egrob Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40 wrote:

This motherboard is 6 months old. Recently it has taken to no-reboot and I
need to switch off at the back of the case and leave the computer off for
10-20 seconds in order for the boot to occur.

Because of that I have looked for bios update and installed same, however
with the same fault occuring. I have switched off silent boot and see 2
lines only.

The first is "Intel Capable EMT3T....................................."
and the second is
"DDR2-533 -- operating in Dual Channel Memory Mode."

The computer goes no further until I switch off the power. The fault is
intermittent and may not occur for 2 or 3 days but when it does it keeps
occuring with every re-boot.

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
I have the same board but not that problem. Can you post everything in your
system? Where'd you get your ram? That can be a problem sometimes. Whats
your bios rev? i know you updated it but post the rev anyway if you will.
You might try clearing CMOS
Eric