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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware in Europe
Message-ID: <1331@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 21 Nov 90 07:47:53 GMT
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G'day,

JH> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes:

MC> caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:

EH> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:

EH> Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas
EH> users to register?  I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to
EH> get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the
EH> trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20.

MC> Here, here.  It can be quite expensive.  It is very discouraging to see a 
MC> program offered at the reasonable proce of $20 or so shoot up at the profit 
MC> of the banks.

JH> Hmmm... How about some kind of joint effort between usergroups in different
JH> countries. I believe that supporting all shareware products would be asking
JH> too much of the usergroups but this would give support to good, widely-used
JH> applications at least.

JH> Jorgen

The user group I am a member of has (or at least had, I'm not up to date) a
member that would collect shareware contributions for overseas authors.

This person converted this larger sum into appropriate payments in currency
that the shareware author could accept. This distributed the (bank) charges
per shareware registrations as the bank charges are usually fixed (I guess)
for currency conversion and don't relate to amount converted.

I don't recall that actual details so I may have "lied a little" to explain
the basic idea {i.e. if I got something wrong please forgive me.}

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.