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Article #1855Re: Handling foreign payments.
From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 19:08
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 19:08
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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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gordon Van Huizen vox: 619.488.9411 fax: 619.488.3045 Metrosoft gvh@metrosoft.com [NeXTmail welcome] ----------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!hd0258!gvh 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