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 Euros haven't stopped the rip-off. I still have a French bank account from my time working there, I paid a German friend with a Euro cheque and the bank took a ludicrous commission for the "conversion" no less than a Franc to Deutchmark fee would have been. Paypal is fine for international payments, I have certainly not found better. Frank On 7 Feb, 2007, at 15:53, Douglas Sharp wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information