Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Shareware charges
Message-ID: <3469@phri.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 02:22:29 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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rmh@apple.com.UUCP (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
> On the good side: in France there is an organization [which] accepts
> payments from its subscribers on behalf of the shareware authors,
> converts the payments to the author's native currency in a lump, and
> mails the author an American Express money order for the total [...]
> Without such an organization, there's no clean answer.

	One possibility would be to use the universal currency -- blank
disks.  Call one virgin 3-1/2" disk equal to 1 US Dollar (or 5 French
Francs, or 0.50 English Pounds, or...).  If your shareware price is 10 US
Dollars, be willing to accept 10 blank disks from somebody without
convenient access to US funds.

	Of course, the postage to mail 10 disks accross the pond might
exceed their value, so maybe it's not such a good idea after all.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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