Should We Boycott Diebold ATM machines?

tinrobot

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:34 PM
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Should We Boycott Diebold ATM machines?

I know it's a small thing, but every time I go to get cash and I see the Diebold name on an ATM, I don't use it.

What if 55,000,000 people stopped using Diebold in favor of some other ATM manufacturer? Let the banks know of our disgust as well.

Besides, if you can't trust Diebold with the vote, why should you trust them with your money?

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skylarmae

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:36 PM
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1. Yes, I am. - became aware local Zion's Bank uses them -

not by me anymore.....

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tridim

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:38 PM
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2. How does one boycott a machine that you are forced to use?

I'm certainly not going to pay a $1.50 fee each time I boycott. That's the problem with Diebold, their products aren't boycottable. I suppose we could all start using live bank tellers, but I don't think that type of boycott would even register.

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Glenda

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:39 PM
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3. How do we know which are Diebold? Does it say name on machine?

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tinrobot

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Sat Nov-06-04 03:36 PM
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10. Most have the name on the machine, yes.

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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:40 PM
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4. Write to the president of your bank

Urge him not to buy Diebold machines when he upgrades or retrofits. One major bank doing this could kill Diebold.

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LoZoccolo

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:43 PM
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5. You would have to boycott the banks that use them, really.

Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 12:43 PM by LoZoccolo

That would be the more impactful thing, to take your money and move it to another bank. Otherwise you just go from one ATM to another and the ATM fee shifts, which would have some impact, but I'd think taking your money out is a bigger thing.

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vetwife

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:47 PM
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6. CVS uses them as well

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thecrow

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Sat Nov-06-04 12:58 PM
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7. Here's a report on their earnings 1/28/04

AP Online
01-28-2004
Dateline: NORTH CANTON, Ohio
On the strength of its automated teller machine business, Diebold Inc. said Wednesday it more than doubled its earnings in the fourth quarter from a year ago and exceeded $2 billion in annual sales for the first time.

Diebold, also a maker of security and voting equipment, earned $59.2 million, or 81 cents per share, in the fourth quarter, up from $21.9 million, or 30 cents per share, a year ago. The company's sales of financial self-service products gained 19.3 percent.

The per share result beat the Thomson First Call estimate by a penny.

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havocmom

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:15 PM
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8. Think the Check 21 program mandated by the Feds for banks to buy

new imaging equipment was, in part, a pay off to companies that also make BBV equipment. The payoff for the banks having to purchase the machines is that they run checks through faster, eliminating float time and increasing the NSF fees they will rake in from the customers.

You get left paying for it all via hits from banking fees if you don't watch what is going on in your accounts AND you get the worst government money can buy making the worst laws for you and your progeny but oh-so helpful to big business.

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fujiyama

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Sat Nov-06-04 01:22 PM
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9. Diebold itself

is ubiquitious. It's absolutely everywhere. Since I first heard of the name (on DU several years ago), I started noticing the copiers at my school, the card swiping machine for the parking structure, ATMs and just about everywhere else.

I personally would find it impossible to boycott them...But I do avoid using them. Most of their equipment is junk and at my school doesn't even work properly.

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