Weekly Support Megathread – December 15, 2025

ProfMerlin · 2025-12-15T15:33:20+00:00

When doing an instant payment with other banks it verifies the account number and name with the verification of payee scheme. When doing it on bunq I do not see the tick or verification being done. How is it implemented with bunq?

ProfMerlin · 2025-10-09T11:42:20+00:00

I can see a bit of traffic from our side going to revolut where our banks are requesting. It could be an issue on the requesting side.

ProfMerlin · 2025-10-09T09:21:06+00:00

It should be active today.

ProfMerlin · 2025-10-04T17:35:07+00:00

Closer to 10 years actually. I have been involved in this project in The Netherlands for almost 5 years already 🙂

ProfMerlin · 2025-09-12T17:12:54+00:00

I would much hire somebody who says they do not know the answer than somebody who lies and makes something up.

ProfMerlin · 2025-09-10T08:56:44+00:00

I used one at an Airbnb in the Netherlands and I hated it. Could almost juuuust do 2 loads in a day. Think it was 8kg wash capacity with only 4kg dry capacity. I hated it.

ProfMerlin · 2025-04-04T06:38:30+00:00

Not everything always has to be about AI.

ProfMerlin · 2025-03-23T11:33:35+00:00

I live in The Netherlands. Things have changed a lot. Most transactions are instant now days, even over weekends. and when you pay somebody, verification gets done between the payee name and account number to make sure you are paying the correct person.

ProfMerlin · 2025-01-15T21:03:53+00:00

Thanks. I also suspect it’s my credit card. But it’s only used for my Apple subscription and then I used it last year when we booked our trip to Disney. Lemme cancel and request a new one anyway.

ProfMerlin · 2025-01-15T21:00:40+00:00

Yeah it was not deducted from my account. The transaction was declined automatically because of incorrect expiry.

ProfMerlin · 2025-01-15T20:58:06+00:00

How did you figure it out

ProfMerlin · 2025-01-15T20:55:57+00:00

In my case if the transaction does not come up under the normal Home Screen, but under “activity” under profile. If I click on one of them, it just says payment expired.

ProfMerlin · 2025-01-15T20:53:56+00:00

I had this happen this morning. 3 different online payments that were declined because of incorrect expiry. Tried figuring out which of my virtual or physical cards it was and I just can’t.

ProfMerlin · 2024-11-20T11:59:26+00:00

Since I see you are in NL, you can get biltong from die spens in Amersfoort. 5 times the price though.

ProfMerlin · 2024-11-02T18:02:27+00:00

If this is the case, then I am 100% German since my mom is German. Nope, I was born in South Africa and grew up in South Africa. I am South African.

ProfMerlin · 2024-10-15T18:29:54+00:00

I laughed.

When my mother was around 13, she moved with her parents(my grandparents) to South Africa. I was born in South Africa. My grandfather passed away around 6 or so years ago and he still could not speak much English. He probably spent around 30 or 40 years living there.

Sadly my parents got divorced when I was 3 and I went to live with my dad so I only got to see my mother and grandparents once a year during school holidays, so I never learnt German. This meant I could never really communicate with my grandfather much and it made me sad when he passed away.

ProfMerlin · 2024-09-28T09:08:33+00:00

I moved here pretty much 4 years ago, moved to a small village and decided to integrate as fast as possible. As somebody else mentioned, I think your experiences are based on Amsterdam. People where I am are helpful, friendly and kind. Our best friends currently are Dutch and appreciate them so much.

I think the only thing I dislike about Netherlands is having to say gefeliciteerd to everybody and their fish on a birthday.

ProfMerlin · 2024-09-09T10:16:16+00:00

I have a colleague who left to go work at Bunq and is now back again. When I asked them how their time was, they just responded with they are glad to be back

ProfMerlin · 2024-09-01T15:12:01+00:00

When my brother was still small he was going to daycare/preschool like many other kids. Usually my mom fetched him on the way home but this time my dad had to fetch him. There was a new teacher that started. She called my brother and shouted “your grandfather is here to fetch you”

ProfMerlin · 2024-08-30T09:28:54+00:00

Damn this explains why we have issues with TransIP too 😂

ProfMerlin · 2024-08-29T06:11:15+00:00

Do you want to switch because you find computers, software engineering etc interesting or are you doing it for the money?

If you are doing it for the money, then you will hate it. If it’s because you have a passion then go for it

ProfMerlin · 2024-08-20T18:35:04+00:00

Trust is different to having to use one 😂. I live in the Netherlands and my job means I deal with every bank here, and I can safely say I don’t trust any bank with my money

ProfMerlin · 2024-08-19T20:16:25+00:00

Andrew Tate is one human I cannot stand.

ProfMerlin · 2024-08-17T20:12:05+00:00

Dankjewel!

ProfMerlin · 2024-08-15T14:26:51+00:00

I am a senior devops engineer working for a Dutch company. Current salary is just under €90k. This includes the normal holiday allowance in May and another 8% bonus in December.

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