Visa cards
Sir, —Having recently returned from the United States, I have read with in terest the debate over Visa cards. In the United States, credit cards have long been an accepted means of paying for goods and services. The account at the end of the billing period provides the consumer with a permanent record of where his money has gone, and for the duration of the billing period the amount of money spent has been earning interest in the bank; two obvious advantages. The people who seem to be bothered by the introduction of Visa cards should realise that it is their “stick-to-our-old-ways” attitudes that keep ’New Zealand from advancing with the rest of the world, with respect to this kind of development. We must move with the times and accept new innovations offered to us, rather than behave in the reactionary manner displayed by Godzone’s conservatives. — Yours, etc., D. CURRIE. November 27, 1978.
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