jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) (11/19/90)
[In the quoted message, I have deleted specific program names because the purpose of this post is not to hype my shareware program which was mentioned.] massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich) writes: >yes of course, there are many possibilities to convert gif to iff! We >have about four utilities: > [list various gif->iff programs deleted] > >I think you can ftp them all from abcdefg20... or whatever the name of >that good ol' nasa server is. >In my opinion [deleted] is best, because of [deleted] >But we run a share-ware version: all picts are cutted to 512 pixels each >dimension. > > Michael Janich, Uni Paderborn, United Germany Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas users to register? I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20. (I left this in c.s.amiga since the problem seems particularly applicable to Amiga shareware authors, with the bulk of Amiga hardware sales in Europe.) -- Ed Hanway --- uunet!sisd!jeh Must be 18 or older to play. Prerecorded for this time zone. Do not read while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment.
caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com>, jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes: > Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas > users to register? I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to > get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the > trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20. Here, here. It can be quite expensive. It is very discouraging to see a program offered at the reasonable proce of $20 or so shoot up at the profit of the banks. > -- > Ed Hanway --- uunet!sisd!jeh > Must be 18 or older to play. Prerecorded for this time zone. > Do not read while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Malcolm Caldwell CALDWELL_M@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU Darwin Australia FIDO: 3:690/648.3
dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov20.102200.394@darwin.ntu.edu.au> caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: >In article <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com>, jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes: > >> Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas >> users to register? I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to >> get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the >> trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20. > >Here, here. It can be quite expensive. It is very discouraging to see a >program offered at the reasonable proce of $20 or so shoot up at the profit >of the banks. > Hmmm... How about some kind of joint effort between usergroups in different countries. I believe that supporting all shareware products would be asking too much of the usergroups but this would give support to good, widely-used applications at least. Jorgen -- email dvljhg@cs.umu.se - other ways to communicate are a waste of time. Everything I say is always true, just apply it to the right reality.
U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo) (11/21/90)
G'day, JH> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes: MC> caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: EH> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes: EH> Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas EH> users to register? I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to EH> get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the EH> trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20. MC> Here, here. It can be quite expensive. It is very discouraging to see a MC> program offered at the reasonable proce of $20 or so shoot up at the profit MC> of the banks. JH> Hmmm... How about some kind of joint effort between usergroups in different JH> countries. I believe that supporting all shareware products would be asking JH> too much of the usergroups but this would give support to good, widely-used JH> applications at least. JH> Jorgen The user group I am a member of has (or at least had, I'm not up to date) a member that would collect shareware contributions for overseas authors. This person converted this larger sum into appropriate payments in currency that the shareware author could accept. This distributed the (bank) charges per shareware registrations as the bank charges are usually fixed (I guess) for currency conversion and don't relate to amount converted. I don't recall that actual details so I may have "lied a little" to explain the basic idea {i.e. if I got something wrong please forgive me.} yours truly, Lou Cavallo.
UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) (11/22/90)
Can a person in Europe open a bank account in a US bank? Then, just save up all those North American checks that come in, send a bundle of them to the bac kin the US (hey, why not Costa Rica?) and watch the $$$ mount up. lee
ludde@nada.kth.se (Erik Lundevall) (11/23/90)
In article <1990Nov20.102200.394@darwin.ntu.edu.au> caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: >In article <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com>, jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes: > >> Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas >> users to register? I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to >> get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the >> trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20. > >Here, here. It can be quite expensive. It is very discouraging to see a >program offered at the reasonable proce of $20 or so shoot up at the profit >of the banks. Here in Sweden, at least two User Groups have collected shareware money from their members and then they have sent the money to the author. If I remember correctly, Steve Tibbett got around $6000 this way for VirusX and Dave Haynie "a few bucks" also for DiskSalv. One of the user groups are collecting money for SID now, so I guess Timm Martin will get some money soon. > >> -- >> Ed Hanway --- uunet!sisd!jeh >> Must be 18 or older to play. Prerecorded for this time zone. >> Do not read while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. > > Malcolm Caldwell CALDWELL_M@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU > Darwin Australia FIDO: 3:690/648.3 -- -Erik Lundevall ludde@adder.bula.se | ludde@nada.kth.se
rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert) (11/23/90)
In article <1990Nov19.153240.20052@sisd.kodak.com> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes: >Is there any way for a shareware author to make it easier for overseas >users to register? I've heard various figures from about $10 and up to >get a check drawn on a US bank, so it hardly makes sense to go through the >trouble and expense for a shareware program that costs < $20. If somebody from outside the Netherlands sends me a check that is not normally valid in the Netherlands, and a few people did, it costs me nlg 12.50 (currently about US$ 8) to cash it. That was a significant part of that US$ 20 check that I got. Therefore I changed the release notes with MSH to the effect that I would rather NOT get any checks, but that plain old cash is greatly preferred. In fact, I may go as far as simply refusing to accept checks and return them to the sender, rather than help the bank make ridiculous profits by taking significant parts out of the amount that people kindly were willing to send me. I would advise other shareware authors to do the same (encourage cheap ways of transferring money, I mean). >Ed Hanway --- uunet!sisd!jeh -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@cs.kun.nl How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg
gunda@cbmehq.UUCP (Gunda O'Neal ESCO) (11/26/90)
In article <90326.090124UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes: >Can a person in Europe open a bank account in a US bank? Then, just save >up all those North American checks that come in, send a bundle of them >to the bac kin the US (hey, why not Costa Rica?) and watch the $$$ mount >up. My experience: Having an address in e.g. Germany, one can not open a bank account in a U.S. bank inside U.S.A. But one could try (!) with a e.g. German sub of an U.S. based bank. Most helpful: American Express Bank (if you are a holder of their plastic). > > lee -- Gunda O'Neal, Assistant Commodore European Support & Coordination Office (ESCO) UUCP: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmehq!gunda "I am easy to please, as long as things go my way ..."