[Gllug] Online banking

[Daniel Andersson]

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:dudrcUoNe58C:production.investis.com/eg
gplc/newsreleases/news2001/2001-10-16+windows+xp+egg&hl=en&ie=UTF8

that and the rumors about egg adopting ms passport sort of put me off egg..

but that's me.

/ d


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Richards" <nedrichards at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Online banking


> Tet,
>
> I think rumours of egg's demise are greatly exagerated
> since they announced a (pre tax) profit of £4.1m in q1
> 2002. Egg doesn't offer better rates than anyone
> anymore 12.1% is good but cahoot are much better at
> around 8%. I use them because they allow you to do a
> direct debit every month and I like their site.
>
> (I also use smile for a student curtrent account and
> they're really good)
>
> Both smile and egg are very Open Source browser
> compatible and I can thorougly reccomend both of them.
>
> nick
>
> >
> > >I've got an egg card.  Website works fine with
> > Mozilla...
> >
> > Yep, assuming the company stay around for much
> > longer. FYI I work for a
> > credit card company. Egg currently offers better
> > rates than us (in fact,
> > they offer better rates than *anyone*). But for how
> > long? They're going
> > down the route that caused so many internet startups
> > to fail, by losing
> > money to gain market share. For every pound you
> > borrow from Egg, they
> > lose 15p. Great for the consumer in the short term,
> > but not a sustainable
> > business model...




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