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From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware in Europe (Was Re: Mac GIF to Amiga IFF ??)
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Date: 22 Nov 90 19:20:30 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
>Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas
>users to register?  I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to
>get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the
>trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20.

If somebody from outside the Netherlands sends me a check that is not
normally valid in the Netherlands, and a few people did, it costs me
nlg 12.50 (currently about US$ 8) to cash it. That was a significant
part of that US$ 20 check that I got. Therefore I changed the release
notes with MSH to the effect that I would rather NOT get any checks,
but that plain old cash is greatly preferred. In fact, I may go as far
as simply refusing to accept checks and return them to the sender,
rather than help the bank make ridiculous profits by taking significant
parts out of the amount that people kindly were willing to send me.

I would advise other shareware authors to do the same (encourage
cheap ways of transferring money, I mean).

>Ed Hanway --- uunet!sisd!jeh
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Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                               rhialto@cs.kun.nl
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