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From: lmichael@melbcae.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware charges
Message-ID: <146@melbcae.edu.au>
Date: 5 Sep 88 09:58:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: melbcae.146
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In article <753@etive.ed.ac.uk>, nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
> In article <53@bridge2.UUCP> ngg@bridge2.UUCP (Norman Goodger) writes:
>>I would stop 
>>procrastinating, and just pay the $20, anyone with a mac should be able to
>>afford that and the .25 cent stamp....
> 
> Except for users elsewhere. I've got copies of bits of shareware marked
> "... $20 drawn on a US bank account payable to ..." or somesuch. So it
> ISN'T just a case of writing a cheque and popping it in the post.
>    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?
> 
Interseting point.
In australia, to pay for a US $20 sharware product, you could go the post
office for an international postal order with a cost of about A $20 on top
to cover the associated costs.  Yuk!

This is madness, there must be an easier way!?!

Michael Veldman.
La Trobe University				Time is an Illusion,
Melbourne, Australia				Lunchtime doubly so!
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