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- From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Henkel-Wallace)
- Subject: Handling foreign payments.
- In-Reply-To: scott@nic.gac.edu's message of 3 Sep 92 00:58:00
- References: <SCOTT.92Sep3005800@nic.gac.edu>
- Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov (News Administrator)
- Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, California
- Date: 7 Sep 92 06:10:00
- Message-ID: <GUMBY.92Sep7061000@Cygnus.COM>
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 00:58:00
- From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
-
- 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.
-
- We quote our prices in dollars ask that foreign payments be made by
- wire xfer. Since these come in via the federal reserve clearing
- system, our bank doesn't charge for these.
-
- We have a standard letter we fax to overseas customers, for them to
- give to _their_ bank. It lists our bank's name, address, telex #,
- federal bank ID (it maybe called something else -- don't have the
- letter in front of me) etc.
-
- Doing it this way means it doesn't cost us any more. It may cost the
- sender something; I don't know and nobody has complained. It's
- certainly better than having different prices for foreign orders!
-
- g
-
- PS: by the way, $35 to turn a check written on a foreign account is
- pretty reasonable. That is a very painful operation for a US
- bank. Most banks will probably do the odd one for an individual's
- account, but they'll figure that a business will be getting lots
- of them and will therefore charge for it.
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