{"id":12199,"date":"2012-07-07T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/friday-rant-an-easy-one-today-damn-banks\/"},"modified":"2012-07-07T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T10:17:17","slug":"friday-rant-an-easy-one-today-damn-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/friday-rant-an-easy-one-today-damn-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Rant \u2013 an easy one today, Damn Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>Today I perceived the need to extract information from my Standard Bank accounts going back to December 2009 so I hopped onto Internet banking.<\/p>\n<p>Extracting info is logical \u2013 I needed to analyse payments made to a certain account BUT could only extract information going back 365 days. Any further and I needed to go into my branch.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to run a comparison between Standard Bank and my current favourite, Capitec. Wanna be bored about how much I actually love a bank? Then ask me about Capitec.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered that Capitec allows ONLINE access to two years of account history (as opposed to Standard Banks one year). Capitec does not have a nifty sort facility but that is why Bill Gates wrote MS Office and an Open Source community wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Office<\/a> -try it, it is free to download, easy to install and pretty intuitive to use.<\/p>\n<p>So off I toddled to Standard Bank to request a specific historic set of statements and the CRUX \u2013 they only give an entire history and the KICKER it is going to cost me R20.00 per PAGE \u2013 Holy Cow.<\/p>\n<p>I then popped in to Capitec and asked them what they will charge for a printed historical statement and their charge is R3.00 for FIVE pages.<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that Standard Bank can charge R20.00 per page and Capitec R0.60 per page?<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Capitec have now released a Super Duper Debit card that will allow internet transactions. One more step to complete freedom from excessive idiotic bank charges \u2013 Steve and his mates had better watch out!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I perceived the need to extract information from my Standard Bank accounts going back to December 2009 so I hopped onto Internet banking. Extracting info is logical \u2013 I needed to analyse payments made to a certain account BUT could only extract information going back 365 days. Any further and I needed to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-12199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}