[Elecraft] Foreign Currency Exchange

[Edward R. Cole]

Please excuse this comment as I receive the reflector as a digest.

My wife works as an agent for Dubus Magazine published in 
Germany.  The cost of paying exchange fees for every subscription 
would be prohibitive for both the subscriber and publisher on an 
individual case.  Dubus solution is having national representatives 
who process subscriptions in their native currencies.  The rep then 
periodically sends a bulk payment that lowers the per-unit exchange 
cost immensely.

You probably have seen the tag on my signature line for Dubus.  We 
are listed as the US rep but accept both Canadian and Mexican 
subscriptions paid in US funds (there are not too many of 
these).   This is how some businesses handle this.

Sorry for the extended OT.

73, Ed - KL7UW

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Message: 27
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:54:18 -0700
From: "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" <eric at elecraft.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: following Amazon's lead regarding FOREX
         fees on international orders by cc [END of Thread]
To: Bob Nielsen <n7xy at clearwire.net>
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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   Lets end this thread for now.

We're a lot smaller than Amazon, but we'll take a look at this.

Joe is probably correct though, in general all that changes is that the
vendor (us) is charged for the transfer fee and we end up increasing the
product price to cover it.

73, Eric WA6HHQ
Elecraft list Modulator



73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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