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Today I experienced cashflow myself: I withdrew some money from an ATM and then wandered across town to pay all bills. So the money got back where it came from. I noticed one of the things Romanians are known best for: there were fights in all the places I’ve been to – the post office, the bank, the cable company office…
And I also saw a horse and carriage downtown, waiting at the red light, behind a Mercedes. The horse was looking at the big commercials on Unirea Shopping Center, with a bored expression on his face.
In my town they invented web-banking…
In my country, they invented it, but only on paper, to show to the EU that we have e-government, but in reality it doesn’t work.
wanna bet on that?
No, I don’t want to bet, because I’m renting the house so the utilities are not under my name, that means I can’t pay somebody else’s bills online. And I don’t want to open several bank accounts but I don’t want them to take money from the account every month just to „manage” the account. I don’t want to pay commissions for bank transfers either.
Likewise you receive somebody else’s bills in your mail box, you _actually_can_ pay that somebody else’s bills online if you specify the invoice number or whatever contract number they have.
! „don’t want” doesn’t mean „doesn’t work”, right? Is soooo easy to twist the reality by providing incomplete / modified information / facts isn’t it? What’s the point doing it though?
funny you complain about wandering across town, very funny.
„I don’t want to pay commissions for bank transfers either.”
that’s the cost for (not) wandering the town for bills paying.
Paying your bills online is a widely available product offered by most of the banks from Romania. For a couple of years at least.
Are you working for a bank or what? Believe me, I asked two banks and they can’t do it. I once wanted to rent a video from Hollywood Music and Film and they said they can’t give me the DVD cause I don’t have a Bucharest ID card.
Thanks Troniu, cause you think I’m funny.
Thanks Dragos, for the information. Yes, I like wandering in town to pay the bills. It’s one of the rare moments when I get the chance to go out and escape from the computer.
Oh, I remembered there is a thing I do online in Romanea: I can see my balance in my foreign currency accout. So every now and then I log on to see those initial 200 dollars becoming less and less (there is a monthly 1 euro fee for „managing” the account).
If you have a bank account that you can check online that means you can actually make transactions and that includes paying the bills. If you can’t you should probably check it with you officer’s account or swicth banks.
I have no interests in knowing whether you like wandering into town for doing it or not – that’s your problem, I am only referring to the „In my country, they invented it, but only on paper, to show to the EU that we have e-government, but in reality it doesn’t work.” phrase.
I hope that this DOES make sense to you.
oh, and ps. – getting an id with hollywood music & films does not really refer to Troniu’s point, not that he’s not able to say it himself. Just for what it’s worth. :)
Ok, I surrender, I believe you can do it all from home, but from mysterious reasons I can’t do it. But, if you really believe that there is such a thing as e-government in Romanea, you are wrong. And I know what I’m talking about.
Dragos, you once told me that you don’t waste your time replying to posts if it’s not worth it. Then why do you do it on this blog? I think that I am pretty aware of what is the offer of online banking in Romanea and I know I can’t pay the landlady’s bills. Pls, stop patronizing me, nobody is the master of universal knowledge.
I am not patronizing you, it just happens that you make a big mistake by considering e-government as being similar with e-banking. Hence „wasting my time commenting on this blog” just for bringing more light to what seems to be very confusing.
The former is a public thing run by the government and the latter is (mostly) a private thing (depending on the shareholders) and run by each individual bank.
Nobody discussed here about e-government, that is a different cup of tea, it has nothing to do with paying your bills.
As you may already know, e-government has several meanings, running on different levels.
E-banking is the B2C level, that’s very e-government to my humble opinion, to the EC’s opinion and it has the same meaning all over the world.
Oh, I forgot, here is a small definition of e-government:
http://w3t.org/?u=8on
I once made a research about the field for a government institution, but I can’t find the PPP anymore.
so if you read more carefully the definition from the link you provided, you will see that it says the same as all the thread’s comments. So I rest my case, take your time and read it all over as long as it’s necessary :)
That’s right, we were all talking about e-gov. So, as Romaneans do after an exhausting fruitful discussion, let’s kiss and have a drink.
„I think that I am pretty aware of what is the offer of online banking in Romanea and I know I can’t pay the landlady’s bills.”
Me, living in a rented flat (imagine that!), here in the town where they invented web-banking, have just paid (via web-banking) the gas and electricity bills both being on landlord’s name (amazing, isn’t it?). Few days ago did the same with the cable-TV bill (same owner).
I wonder what’s the cause that you „can’t” – maybe is a huge international conspiracy…. you never know.
…and no, I am not patronizing you, I just want you to reflect an objective reality instead of what you wrote in the original post
Thanks for the tip. I’ll ask at the new BRD and Raiffeisen bank across the street. When I asked at Bancpost and BCR last time, they said I can’t pay somebody else’s bills (whou would want the bills payed by a stranger, isn’t that cute?).
I tried to pay my taxes online too at Banca Transilvania but they told me that the name on the bank account and on the bills has to be the same.