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- From: eystein@smyril.fi.uib.no (Eystein Dugstad)
- Subject: Re: Handling foreign payments.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.102641.8498@alf.uib.no>
- Sender: usenet@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount)
- Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
- References: <1992Sep3.085909.27106@csus.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 10:26:41 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Sep3.085909.27106@csus.edu> preuss@mozart.sfsu.edu (Peter
- Preuss) writes:
- > In article <SCOTT.92Sep3005800@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott
- Hess) writes:
- > >Having just had a run-in with my bank, I'm turning to the only
- > >source of information I apparently have left. Everyone else has
- > >had plenty of advice, but none of it's really all that great (no
- > >slight intended, guys!).
- > >
- > >My problem is that my bank wants $35 to turn a check drawn on a
- > >German bank into dollars in my account. This is _not_ including
- > >changing the money, if that's needed. Since NeXT is such a world-wide
- > >machine, I'm most likely not alone in this problem. But, I've
- > >never seen any postings about it.
- [...]
-
- USE VISA or some other card! I've bought several Items from US companies
- just giving my visa # to them. This works perfect. What a bank charge to
- handle a visa transaction differs. My bank charge only NOK 2.00 which in
- todays exchange rate is about 30 cents. (In Norway, you need a bank
- account to get a VISA card
-
- I would think though, that you somewhere might run into problems with the
- authorities if the amount of your transaction is in the order of several
- thousands of dollars.
-
- Eystein DUgstad
- University of Bergen, Norway
-