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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: Handling foreign payments.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.212511.21949@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <GUMBY.92Sep7061000@Cygnus.COM>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:25:11 GMT
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- David V. Henkel-Wallace 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Warning: not all banks do this for free. My bank, for one, charges
- ten dollars for the privilege of handling your wire for you. Also, I
- believe there is a charge to the sender.
-
-
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-