Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!wrdis01!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari for Auction: Update Summary: Banks send US dollars Message-ID: <1991Apr23.231131.12460@cs.dal.ca> Date: 23 Apr 91 23:11:31 GMT References: <2275044@zebedee%tharr.uucp> <1991Apr19.155916.18600@ncsu.edu> Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 26 In article gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) writes: >Interesting, how did the purchaser manage to get money to you? I understood >that it's remarkably expensive in the USA to receive non-US-Dollar money from >abroad. Could I have sent you a cheque drawn on a British bank? Come on, this is not a problem in most cases. I frequently buy items from the US, and I suspect that the Canadian situation is not unique. We can buy money orders in US dollars from the Post Office or from most banks, and I can write cheques in US dollars on my regular bank account by simply writing US$ all over the cheque (this latter feature may not be as common). I don't think that there is any problem coming up with paper in US funds that a bank will accept, but S&L's are another matter. I tried to give my brother in the US $200 during a recent visit, and his S&L wouldn't even accept AmEx traveller's cheques in US dollars sold by a Canadian bank. So I went down the street and got the money on my bank card. But real banks (the kind that stay sovent for weeks on end) have never been a problem. -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biome!silvert BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.ca