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Old 09-23-2010, 09:55 PM  
Phoenix66
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Originally Posted by JCK View Post
How can both of the following be true? They both appear in my account.

"Due to maintenance, your Virtual/Visa Electron balance is currently not available."

"St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank, without our prior knowledge, has turned off the ability for ePassporte to access or display Account Holders' Visa Card balances."

This is simple. When programmers wrote their system they did not foresee such a situation. Probably it tries to connect with the bank, gets no response and shows the default message about "maintenance" because maintenance is supposed to be the only situation when the data are not available.

Since it happened suddenly they can't change the code rapidly. Probably there are not even any programmers at the moment.

I'm not defending Epass here, just explaining how this could happen from a programmer's point of view.
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