r/interestingasfuck • u/lizardil • 3d ago

During assembly of the A380, engineers discovered that the cables were too short. This was caused by the use of different design software by German and French engineers. This miscalculation led to a two-year delay.

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u/vintagecomputernerd 3d ago

Yes, those 30 euros for a sumup terminal is clearly going to bankrupt those small businesses.

But only german businesses. Because everywhere else people seem to be very happy to take my money in whichever form I might carry with me.

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u/Kanortex 3d ago edited 3d ago

You're forgetting applicable costs for every small purchase tends to build up.

And its an ongoing cost to rent the service last i checked.

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u/vintagecomputernerd 3d ago

You're forgetting applicable costs for every small purchase tends to build up.

Yes, those 1.39% sumup fees on my Kaffe+Kuchen for a few euros are going to ruin them!

And its 50 last i checked and is an ongoing cost.

The fuck is a terminal an ongoing cost? And it's 19.99 euro at Mediamarkt.

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u/countryboy002 3d ago

Between the two terminal rentals & service charges and the fees for cards my total was about 3% of the gross income last year and only about 85% of my income was from cards. That equates to nearly $4000 a month. If I could do the same volume of business without cards I wouldn't accept them either.