40 euro

The_Goose · 30-03-2004 03:21PM #1

WTF?????
just cancelled my credit card and the person on the phone said i'll be charged an extra 40 euro!!!!!
those ramming sons of bitches!!!!!
how can it be legal!!! is it like buying out a contract or something???

Sleepy · 30-03-2004 03:26PM

Welcome to Ireland.

hedgetrimmer · 30-03-2004 03:28PM

Probably some small print crappy service charge...

woosaysdan · 30-03-2004 03:29PM

why did you cancel it for?

Johnny Versace · 30-03-2004 03:37PM

The EUR 40 is probably the credit card tax...

The_Goose · 30-03-2004 03:47PM

Originally posted by woosaysdan
why did you cancel it for?

I got it for holidays last year, put my own money on it so not to use theirs then said i d cancel it when i got home 400 euros later payin it off enough to buy stuff on the net! got a cash sum so said i d get rid of it !!!
Thats unreal!! think it might be that gov tax alright how come its so high though???
bloody hell

Dont Ban Me · 30-03-2004 03:50PM

"Administration Fee's"!!!! :rolleyes:

Johnny Versace · 30-03-2004 03:57PM

The government tax is 40 euros.

This is what the charge is. You have to pay it.

Sleepy · 30-03-2004 04:17PM

Originally posted by Manticore
how come its so high though???

See my above post.

The_Goose · 30-03-2004 04:24PM

ha ha ha ha ha ok ok calm do there laddy bucks its only a question/rant!!!

kenny · 30-03-2004 04:27PM

Welcolme to Ireland is right!

They should hand out vaseline at the airport.

Sleepy · 30-03-2004 04:28PM

Damn straight!

Macseamusa · 30-03-2004 04:34PM

there would be a charge on that vaseline of course

Sleepy · 30-03-2004 04:45PM

It brings a new meaning to greasing the right palms... or should I say fists?

Mossy Monk · 30-03-2004 04:48PM

Originally posted by kenny
Welcolme to Ireland is right!

They should hand out vaseline at the airport.

ROFFLE

0utshined · 30-03-2004 05:23PM

Hey Manticore,

Although it's bad getting charged the 40 Euro, you're lucky you've cancelled now. If you waited till Thursday you would have got hit with another 40E - the charge they would have applied on 1st April 2005!

byte · 30-03-2004 06:16PM

/me shakes fist at Government fees.*

*maybe they'll tax shaking fists too

funky penguin · 30-03-2004 11:05PM

Originally posted by byte
/me shakes fist at Government fees.*

*maybe they'll tax shaking fists too

Good god I hope not! Shaking ones fist is our last line of defense! You take away that, and you take away what it means to be Oirish!

herbie747 · 31-03-2004 09:04AM

Originally posted by Johnny Versace
The government tax is 40 euros.

This is what the charge is. You have to pay it.

That's exactly what it is. Same thing happened to me.

Walter Ego · 31-03-2004 09:46AM

Originally posted by Macseamusa
there would be a charge on that vaseline of course

That would be the well known " VAT at point of entry" :rolleyes:

Sposs · 31-03-2004 09:52AM

What credit card company are you with?

Frank Grimes · 31-03-2004 09:58AM

The charges are retrospective, i.e. what we're going to get hit with in the next few days is the charge for the privilege of using our credit cards from April 2003 to 2004. If you cancel it at any stage you're hit with the full amount.
It's solely the government stamp duty of €40, nothing else.
I checked all this with the stamp duty office as the explanation of "you just have to pay it" that TSB gave me just wasn't good enough

40 euro

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