Hit the nail on the head, cheques cost a fortune to cash here in NL. I think they're mostly an anachronism in most European countries. Australia still uses cheques IIRC. I once had a cheque sent from Australia sent to me, cost me something like 16EUR to cash. And that cheque was worth something like 30EUR :lol:.
Between EMU countries (EU countries who have exchanged their local currency for the EUR) there are no charges for banktransfers, i.e. great for EBay'ing :-).