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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (William Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware Policy.
Summary: Bank transfers in N. America are expensive
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.161133.16110@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 16 Feb 90 16:11:33 GMT
References: <90020603025378@masnet.uucp> <1969@laura.UUCP>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (William Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Division, BIO
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In article <1969@laura.UUCP> klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
>>Back to one of the initial problems, Rainer -- how do we in Canada get a
>>shareware registration fee to you. (I don't even know what the account
>>number you refer to in your ARCGSH messages is for!)
>
>Money transfer should not be any problem at all for
>huge amounts of money are shoveled around the world permanently
>within a few minutes.
>
> .....
>
>To transfer money to me you should take the information above,
>walk to your bank and ask the clerk how to do it. They are the
>experts, they really should know. I would like to hear
>how/whether you succeeded!

I run into this problem frequently, since I go to a lot of foreign conferences 
and they often specify that the registration fees are to be transferred to a
Postgiro account.  If you are transferring several thousand dollars this is
great, but it is not the way N. Americans transfer funds, so if you go to any
bank I have tried you will find that the handling fee is much larger than the
usual shareware payment.

Basically we use cheques and money orders, sent by mail.  This seems to be the
cheapest method by far.  If anyone else has info on sending money to foreign
countries (outside Canada and the US that is), please post it.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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