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I'm a software developer with a reasonably popular shareware terminal
emulator on the NeXT computer.  In the past 6 months or so, my
program's been becoming more popular overseas.  Things have worked
out fine, since I've been receiving payment in funds drawn on US
banks.

This week, I received a check drawn on a German bank.  So, I take
it down to Norwest (where I've an account) and try to deposit it.
They want a $35 collection fee.  The check's only $40!

So, I'm left with a $5 piece of wallpaper.  Anything I can do with
it?  Any good general solutions for this problem?  I plan to receive
more checks from Europe in the future, so this sort of puts me in
a bad way ...

I've checked into a couple things.  Wire transfers might be alright.
But, I note that Norwest would want $25 from me to make a wire
transfer to a foreign land.  This just puts the problem on somebody
else's shoulders!  I'd rather have a solution which would bring
the costs down to the $10 area, which I'd be happy to split with
the customer.

I suppose I could always find a German distributor.  That might
work best.  But, could the German distributor accept checks from
somewhere else - like Sweden?  Sigh ...

Thanks,
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