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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Help with MaxAppleZoom
Message-ID: <1990May5.163812.6892@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 5 May 90 16:38:12 GMT
References: <9380001@hp-ptp.HP.COM> <55857@coherent.coherent.com> <21868@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <21868@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>In article <55857@coherent.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>>He also said that he's had a _VERY_ poor shareware-payment response from
>>users in the U.S... U.S. users are apparently reluctant to try to send
>>cash overseas, for fear of having it disappear en-route.
>
>I definitely intend to send my payment -- what's the best manner
>to send him money?  US check?  Money order?

The documentation for MaxAppleZoom specifically requests that you send
cash.  He says that the problems with checks is that he has to pay a
fee to cash them, and the fee can be as much as the check.  I don't
know why a money order would be a problem, but he does ask for cash.

I was (at least one) who mentioned the problem of sending cash.  Maybe
it's not a reasonable fear, but I was brought up hearing "never send
cash through the mail".  I sent the cash anyway, and it got there
fine.  Still, I felt apprehensive about it.

Then again, as Naoto Horii himself said, not sending anything is the
surest way for him to not get your payment.
-- 
David Elliott
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