Shopping Abroad Problems
Posted: April 23rd, 2004 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Internet, Personal |After seeing some beautiful photologs i decided to buy a digital camera. Sony V1 was my choice.
I´ve used Amazon.com and the great MBnet service from Sibs to make the payment. All went well until i checked my bank account. -400 euros. Thats right: minus 400 euros… But how? I had 600 euros, bought the camera that costed me 400, the math tells me that I should have 100 euros!!
After a phonecall to my stupid bank i got to know that they considered 500 euros captive. This is, they took 500 euros to pay Amazon, and took another 500 “just in case” . According to the BPI support line this is a standard procedure. I couldn´t believe it, so i pressed charge.
Because of this i was unable to withdraw money on atm machimes for 2 long days…
But BPI stroke back again on me: the day next to this episode i´ve received my new debit card (replacing the expired one). I opened the envelope and saw an orange-pink ugly thing. My reaction:
What the hell is this? A debit-gay-card? An atempt to embarrass me on the shopping stores?
p.s. I have nothing against gay people.
p.s.2. has you might have noticed, i´ve made an about page where you can know a litlle more about me. Check out the top right corner.
p.s.3 have a nice weekend!