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From: richard@claris.UUCP (Richard Scorer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware charges
Message-ID: <5078@claris.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 22:12:32 GMT
References: <24519@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <53@bridge2.UUCP> <753@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: richard@claris.UUCP (Richard Scorer)
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In article <753@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>   I'm inclined to just work out the equivalent in pounds sterling, write
>a British cheque for this, and send this instead. How would this go down?
>Would a US bank like it?

Nick,

The bank wouldn't mind it, but they do charge outlandish fees for servicing
foreign currency, and the shareware author would not receive much of his
fee - that's why he wants _you_ to get stuck with the processing fees, then
you both know he is getting exactly the amount of money he was intended to
receive.

My father sent me some money from NatWest - he telexed it, and informed the
NatWest branch to extract all fees at his end, so I would receive exactly
the amount I needed - lo and behold, good old Wells Fargo charged me for
receiving the telex & depositing the money - what a ripoff !!

So that's why !  Sorry to rabble on...



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