ING Direct: 10 billion net profit in 000?

[Christophe]

Seen on the ING Direct website, in 2007: 9241 billion net profit (so after tax?)



And when we click "Learn more" we get:



Effectively 9,241 billion ca seems much more reasonable but this error is no longer an error it is a fault ... then 2 things one:

a) if it is not a fault, then if they really won close to 10 billion in 000, what are the hundreds of billions GIVEN by governments? Is this a joke?

b) if it is a fault: bankers who on their website confuse 1 and 1000, it is appalling isn't it?

It's up to Lamentable but true !!

[Remundo]

Hi Toff,

you strain your heart unnecessarily at watching this

Ties in silk pants have been making "zero" mistakes for a long time (in every sense of the word).

Are still showing off with billions. Ridiculous

[Christophe]

Yeah ... but it's still there ...
Even if it is probably only a comma error by a negligent webmaster ... but all the same ...

At my level of small webmaster, I would make this error well I would be pointed out quickly ...

Am dismayed by the mediocrity of those who believe they are the masters of the world ...

[dirk pitt]

billion here, billion there,

from time to time you have to think about orders of magnitude:

if I put ONE euro on the table every SECOND, 24 hours a day, I have ONE small billion after .....

about 31 YEARS !!!!

oops i was wrong

[Christophe]

Uh I don't know how many seconds you have in a year but I find a little over 31 years and 8 months ... to make a billion seconds.

Finally, most of us are billionaires to think about it! (me again but almost)



Still, I don't quite understand your comparison: you mean that a billion is a lot or a little?

[Did67]

b) if it is a fault: bankers who on their website confuse 1 and 1000, it is appalling isn't it?

It's up to Lamentable but true !!

It is a mistake, there is no possible doubt.

From there to get excited against the bankers for that, no:

1) it is the "comm" service and not the bankers that takes care of the web pages; it's advertising !!!

2) it is even very likely the result of an automatic translation of managed data into English, with confusion between the thousands separator and the comma.

I don't want to defend the bankers either. But the angle of attack, there, is insignificant ...

[Christophe]

Yes but no ... because it is a representative index of the lack of rigor of the profession !! You will tell me there are bad apples everywhere but all the same: it is not a small error lost in a document in the background of the site, it is on their HOMEPAGE !!!

If you earn 2000 € salary and one month, just by "comma" error of a factor of 1000 you only receive € 2, what would you say?

[Remundo]

Uh I don't know how many seconds you have in a year but I find a little over 31 years and 8 months ... to make a billion seconds.

I confirm

at the rate of 86400 sec / day and 365,25 days / year, it takes 31,688 years to make 1 billion seconds

From asking € 1 / sec ... You have to earn € 86400 / day, or € 2,6 million / month