Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Bank Comparison Website - A Middle Class Rant III

I came across this website ( http://www.moneytools.ca ) while doing my daily read at http://www.milliondollarjourney.com. It is an online guide to bank fees created by the Canadian Government. It provides you with the “tools you need to help you shop around for bank accounts, credit cards and other financial products from the comfort of your home.” The site allows you to search for the best product based on: location, minimum balance, age, number of transactions a month etc...

Although the site could be useful for some people I don’t like the fact that the government has gone ahead and wasted time and money on the construction of it (if an individual or business created it then hey no problem). In my opinion it’s really none of the governments business. I think that consumers are smart enough to shop around on their own (and if not then the dumb ones can pay a higher fee and raise the EPS of my bank stocks). Part of my problem with the government poking its’ nose into bank fees has to do with the fact that bank fees really aren’t that high (I bank at a big bank and pay $0 a year in fees). Why is the government wasting time and resources in an effort to save Canadians a few dollars a month at best? Additionally, the type of people who are going to be visiting the site are mainly going to be financially savvy people like you and me who probably don’t pay many fees anyways. Those who pay extravagantly high bank fees probably won’t use the site, because if they’ve been dumb enough to pay high fees up to now and haven’t done anything about it why is this website going to make a difference?

Since when is the government in the business of being a comparison shopper for consumers anyways? What’s next? Restaurants? Hotels? Groceries? Actually, I think that a grocery comparison website would save the average Canadian far more money each year than the bank fee website (I converted a friend from A&P to No-Frills and he now saves about $30 a week in groceries --- for him that’s about 3 years worth of bank fees saved each week). Anyways...my point is the government should stick to governing (defense, infrastructure, health, education) and leave the rest up to the market.

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