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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: Handling foreign payments.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.190838.319@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <SCOTT.92Sep3005800@nic.gac.edu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 19:08:38 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <SCOTT.92Sep3005800@nic.gac.edu> writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > What do other people do to solve this problem? Do people just
- > require checks drawn on US banks? [That, of course, just moves
- > the onus onto the sender instead of the receiver.] How do things
- > work with dealers? For instance, can a German dealer process funds
- > from France reasonably, or does one have to have dealers in every
- > blasted country? Are there any options on-the-cheap? [The problem
- > is obviously entirely different depending on whether your program
- > costs $500 or $50!] Would it be worthwhile to have an account on
- > a Swiss bank and have people do direct deposit?
- >
-
- So far all of our international orders have been by credit card. Keeps
- things nice, simple and instant.
-
- Gordon
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