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Why Are Internet Cafes Still Popular?
September 4th, 2009 at 2:05 PMI’ve never been big on internet cafes as such, but Internet Kiosks have been useful to me. The ones you see around in airports or shopping centres, particularly if they have a printer attached.
They have come in handy when I’ve been at a shopping centre and trying to pricematch another store. Just hop onto the kiosk, print a catalogue page & take it in. Costs between $2-3 dollars depending on the kiosk.
Let The ACCC Know What You Think About Postage Increases
August 24th, 2009 at 2:58 PMI will gladly accept a postage increase to 60c on once condition: Australia Post shops will then be banned from selling all NON-Post related goods.
No more gift shop items, no more prepaid mobiles, no more printers, no more ink. A few basic stationery items would be fine (as as long as they relate to post i.e. Pens & pencils not binders & CDs.
I’m 50/50 on bill payment @ post too. I would like it to be scrapped in the age of internet/phone billing. But at the same time it is useful for pensioners etc to pay their bills there.
Basically too much of the post shops time is spent serving customers an office store or a news agent would be better served by. Why should I have to wait in line half an hour to collect my PO Box mail because the cashiers are explaining prepaid mobiles to a customer.
Internode NodeLine Is Cheap But Strange
July 15th, 2009 at 3:51 PMI can’t see how this is considered “cheap”. Take a comparison to Telstra Homeline Complete (or Plus).
Internode call rates are $29.95 per month connection, 20c local, 15c per min national & 29c per min mobile. No flagfall on national or mobile with per second billing. But calls have a minimum 1 minute duration.
Telstra however have Homeline Plus $29.95 per month. With 18c local calls, 20c per min national w/39c flagfall – but capped at $2.00 for either 20min peak or 3hr offpeak. Mobiles are either 33c for telstra or 37c for non-telstra, again a 39c flagfall. Calls to telstra mobiles are capped at $2.00 for 20min.
I never thought I would defend Telstra in a post, but their rates aren’t that bad. They are pretty good for off peak national calls actually. However Internode wins on short peak national, and mobile calls.
However if you are a low volume caller telstra also have a $20.95 Homeline Budget, or Homeline Complete for $27.95 if you need ADSL2+ on the line as well (which is cheaper then on the plan costs if you make zero calls).
For actuall calls Voip options still win hands down for call costs. I get some very reliable service and only pay 14c per min to mobiles with per second billing. There is cheaper out there too if you want that kind of thing.
HP Forced To Fix Australian Cashback Process
July 4th, 2009 at 7:47 AMThey have to wait a certain amount of time though to allow for returns by the stores. Lets say that stores return goods once a month. If you bought a laptop on 1 July and returned it 3 weeks later. You fill out the redemption on 2 July (because you usually only have 2 weeks to get it to them). So now you return your laptop sometime about 20 July. If the store processes their returns once a month on the 15th of the month they won’t return it to HP until 15 august. Allow a week for it to get to the right place and a couple of weeks to approve the return and check everything is there for a valid return etc. You’re now at the end of August for a purchase back on the 1st July. Then give another 2 weeks for the cash back to get processed and you’ve got a reasonable time frame for 75 days.
How Long Do You Need To Keep Tax Documents?
June 25th, 2009 at 1:30 PMIts a bit more than just 5 years from the Notice of Assessment(NofA) – which is generally the right time.
If you have a rental property or a property that has at any point been used to produce income you need the purchase documents from when you bought it. As well as any substantiating records you build up along the way e.g. if you claimed depreciation on any assets. You would need to keep those for 5 years from the NofA in the year you sold it.
Same goes for shares you need the original purchase contracts, plus if you had reinvested dividends (DRP) you need all those records from 5 years after the NofA in the year you sold them.
But wait there is more, if you made a business loss, tax loss or capital loss you need to keep records to support that for 5 years AFTER you have used up the loss.
So if you bought shares in 1990, and sold them for a loss in 2000, but didn’t use up the capital losses till 2009, you would need to keep the original 1990 records from 5 years after you get the NofA for your 2009 return ~ some 25 years later…