Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Even something as simple as mailing a cheque in Euros to someone with a bank account in the UK is horrendously expensive. After exchange rates, foreign currency charge processing and so on and so forth the recipient gets to see about 40% of what you send (The European Commission is trying to crack down on this but is still meeting with strong resistance from banks) . Paypal does the whole lot loads cheaper than my bank does - and a damn sight faster too. Douglas Lottermoser George wrote: > Even here in the US PayPal makes sense. The cost of printing my checks > = .18 + .39 postage + .05 envelope + drive to post office. On Doug's > end he has the cost and inconvenience of driving the check to the > bank. Direct deposit of funds is, in my opinion, a service worth > paying a small fee for. Every time we use our credit card the person > receiving that form of payment loses a small fee. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george@imagist.com > > > > On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Nick Roberts wrote: > >> For me, it's quite simple - with PayPal, Doug has already got it. I >> have no idea how long a cheque from a UK bank would take to get >> there, or what he could do with it anyway once it had. Worth their >> share, I think, at least for those of us elsewhere. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >