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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
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Subject: Re: Shareware Policy.
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Date: 19 Feb 90 08:57:58 GMT
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In article <1990Feb16.161133.16110@cs.dal.ca> bill@biomel.UUCP writes:
>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.

This raises the question how much fee I had to pay if I would
receive a cheque or money order from a foreign country (here:
anything outside Germany). Recently I got an Euro-Cheque from
Austria made out in DM (Deutsche Mark) and I had no additional
costs with it. Probably it is different with cheques from, say,
Canada or the United States. I shall try to find out and post
the results here.

Oh, and there is still the very cheap possibility to put some
banknotes into an envelope and hand it over to the snail mail
for delivery. Obviously this is not the most secure procedure
but for $15 (the Arcgsh Shareware fee I ask for) the risk may
be bearable.


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