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From: shulman@slb-sdr.UUCP (Jeff Shulman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware charges
Message-ID: <513@slb-sdr.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 14:13:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: slb-sdr.513
References: <24519@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <53@bridge2.UUCP> <753@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: shulman@slb-sdr.UUCP (Jeff Shulman)
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In article <753@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>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?

Alas my bank would charge me $20 just to process any overseas check.
Thus, unless a check is drawn to a US (or Canadian) bank payable in US funds
I must send it back. Some US banks will also charge a $1 or so processing fee
for Canadian checks.  Another solution is International Postal Money Orders
which you should be able to obtain at any post office.  I've had no problems
with these but I did get strange looks from a bank teller when I presented
one of these from Japan.

If there were any other way for payments to be made to US shareware authors
from non-US users, I'd like to hear of it.
                                                        Jeff
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