Re: Paypal and foreign money orders

["James Purchase" <jpurch@interlog.com>]

"But interesting... there were a few folks in non-US countries that ended
up sending cash because it's prohibitively expensive to get a foreign
money order drawn for $5.  Good idea!"

Isn't Pay-Pal limited to U.S. based folks? Last year I wanted to order some
Cyclops-Eeze and the chap who sells it told me that he accepted Pay-Pal.
When I attempted to use the service, I couldn't because I wasn't a U.S.
resident. Of course, they may have changed their policies. Definately
something worth considering (depends upon how much "commission" Pay-Pal
wants per transaction - that's why the AGA wouldn't let us accept Visa - the
banks charge a high commission to low volume operations).

As for costs to foreigners for money orders, I can't understand this. Unless
things are TOTALLY different in other countries, the Post Office is the
logical place to go for a money order in foreign funds (and this was noted
on the web site). In most countries, the postal service provides this
service for a very small fee - heck, in Canada you just walk up to the
counter, tell the clerk the currency you want the International Money Order
in, the amount of the foreign currency and bang - their computer works out
the exchange and prints out the Money Order. It's REALLY simple and they
only charge about $2.00 Cdn for the service. I realize that banks usually
charge a flat fee of around $15.00 Cdn for bank drafts in foreign currency
but there are alternatives.

James


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