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- From: hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett)
- Subject: Re: PD clearing house
- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:26:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.182624.23351@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug11.195202.3524@feline.uucp> gray@feline.uucp (Kelly Gray) writes:
- > What I wouldn't mind seeing is a clearing house that would accept
- >shareware payments, and pass the money on to the author regardless of
- >which country the money is going to.
- >
- > It's a real pain for me to send shareware payments to anyone outside of
- >Canada, since most authors want payment in a form they can esily handle,
- >and a cheque from a bank in Canada isn't that easy for someone in
- >Australia to handle :-(
- >
- > It would be real easy for both the user and the author if I could
- >obtain a program from my usual online service/user group/whatever, try
- >it for a while, and then pick up the phone and use my credit card to pay
- >for it. The clearing house would take the program name, the author's
- >name, and my credit card info; pay the author the shareware fee, and
- >charge the fee and a service charge to my credit card.
- >
- >The clearing house could also handle mailing out of the latest version
- >of a program, or simply pass the customer's name and address back to the
- >author for further support.
- >
- > <o_o> Kelly Gray Gray@feline.uucp
- > Gray@admin.humberc.on.ca
- >
-
-
- Well just hang on a little while there Kelly. If you are new to the
- group or missed my earlier post, I am intending to open exactly such a
- service, assuming the response from users and authors is there (and it
- seems to be). I'm just waiting for my business to be officially registered
- with the government so that I can open up my Cdn. & US bank accounts and
- get my Visa vendor's license (and possibly others). If all goes well, then
- the service could be ready as early as the beginning of September. Please
- feel free to email me, Kelly, if you'd like more info.
-
- Soon I'd like to start discussing acceptable terms with interested
- shareware authors, so that we can work out something quickly.
-
-
- =====================================================================
- Mike Hackett | "She wouldn't make love,
- <hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> | but she could make good sandwich"
- Honors Computer Science IV | -Ian Anderson, "Budapest"
- University of Western Ontario | - _Crest of a Knave_
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