Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!barry
From: barry@reed.UUCP (Barry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware charges
Summary: VISA/MasterCard works well for international payments
Message-ID: <10245@reed.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 88 18:45:57 GMT
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Reply-To: barry@reed.UUCP (Barry Smith)
Organization: Blue Sky Research, Portland OR
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well, this may be the way of the future :-)

we've found that VISA and MasterCard work well for international
financial transactions: the transfer can happen by telephone, in
one or two days; the currency exchange is handled automatically;
the fees are reasonable (in our case easily less than 5 percent).

our bank is probably more helpful than most, so it was not difficult
to set the handling up.  it would seem that a shareware author
handling more than, say, 100 dollars/month might look into this method.

Barry Smith
Blue Sky Research