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Re: BEST Inc. Anonymous



> > 
> > Actually, there's a very elegant solution.  Get an eel-skin
> > wallet which erases magnetic information.  
> > 
> Eel-skin wallets are made of two types of eels.  Originally, they
> were made of a particular species, which was very expensive.
> Then someone decided to make cheap eel-skin billfolds.  They used
> a different species.  One which erases the magnetic strips.  (at
> least it does on credit cards).  I found this out much to my
>  
> Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes - check the back issues of comp.risks. It isn't the eel skin but the
magnetic catch on the wallet that trashes your cards.

> 
Ian Turton - School of Geography, Leeds University
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