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And lo on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:50:45 +0100, Tom Austin <taustin> did spake,
saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> And lo on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:31:02 +0100, Tom Austin <taustin> did
>> spake, saying:
>>
>>> Fill out form that asked what my great great great grandchild's name
>>> is going to be.
>> ....Verifying... please wait.
>> I just stuck my vehicle duty tax disc in to the DVLA to claim back the
>> (TAX-10%/6)*3 months you have to pay in advance; please wait 3- 6 weeks
>> before trying to find out where your money is. So not too bad.
>
> that's 3-6 weeks.... not 6-18
Hence my "So not too bad" this is a government department after all.
> I once had a rebate take 6 months - 26 weeks.
> I almost forgot about it only to have the check come in and I have to
> look up what it was for.
>
> I guess a lot of rebate houses make their money on pure interest.
>
> Sure a lousy $10 doesn't make too much, but if you get 1000 rebates and
> hold the cash for each one for 3 months you can garner a bit of interest
> off of it.
Hell yeah why do you think it used to take so long to transfer money
around.
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Phil Cook
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