Re: [AGA-sc] Re: [Fwd: FW: Becoming a member with aga]

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

I wonder how Stephan Misfud does it.  He's been a member for several years,
and I know he's in Malta.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:01 AM
Subject: [AGA-sc] Re: [Fwd: FW: Becoming a member with aga]


> Erik is right. The immediate answer for this person is that
> cash is required in these situations. I'll write and let
> him.
>
> Some general points related to the long term issue.
>
> Trivia first: Technically, a bank draft is a check written
> by one bank against its deposits in another bank. What he
> probably meant was a Counter Check, which is a
> nonpersonalized check form of check you can get at the bank
> counter. Or he could have meant a personal check -- or a
> Cashier's Check or Certified Check, which is a check drawn
> against funds the Bank certifies to the payee to be
> available to cover the amount of the check.
>
> In any event, if they cannot use Paypal and are not from
> the USA, processing any of the above types of checks will
> cost us $17 each. For those folks we can either accept a
> check for a gain of $3 each or require that they send cash
> in USA currency for gain of $33 each. Note that converting
> currency is going to cost them extra.
>
> I suspect there are less than 20 such folks per year but
> let's assume 20. If we receive checks from these folks,
> that's about $60 revenue against and estimate cost of
> roughly $400 per year. If we receive cash from each of
> these persons instead, that would be a gain of about $660
> or the equivalent of about 2 TAG ads.
>
> Maybe Phil can get someone to sponsor these foreign
> memberships by buying an ad once a year.
>
> After February, especially if we are not involved in
> working on a 2005 convention, I can look around again for
> reasonable arrangement for us to accept cred cards
> directly, which will probably mean dropping paypal so that
> we can maintain enough volume to make the cred card
> arrangement affordable.
>
> I have not investigated whether accepting cred cards
> directly will end up with similar limitations on
> transactions from some foreign countries. If so, that would
> just mean that AGA would be responsible for covering any
> cred card purchase that AGA accepted but could not be
> processed.
>
>
>
> sh
>
>
> --- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
>
> > Bank Draft means essentially they write a check that
> > costs us more money
> > to cash than the membership itself.  PayPal doesn't take
> > payments from
> > Malta.  :(
> >
> >    - Erik
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
> >
> > > Erik, forwarding to you because he says nice things
> > about the web site. :-)
> > >
> > > Scott, pretend I'm stupid and explain to me in simple
> > words what he means by
> > > "bank draft."
> > >
> > > Cheryl
> > >
> > > PS Stephan told me a couple of his Maltese friends were
> > interested.
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: FW: Becoming a member with aga
> > > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:21:38 +0100
> > > From: Ramon Vella <rams@onvol.net>
> > > To: <cheryl@wilstream.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello there. I find your website extremely informative
> > and
> > > professionally organized. When trying to fill
> > registration there was no
> > > option for my country. (Malta)
> > >
> > > How can I subscribe? Possibly by sending a bank draft
> > in US dollars and
> > > filling in the  traditional membership form?.
> > >
> > > I m really looking forward to share and display my
> > aquascapes with other
> > > aga fellows, possibly entering in the yearly aga
> > competitions .
> > >
> > > Best regards , looking faithfully for an answer,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ramon Vella
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > -- 
> > Erik Olson
> > erik at thekrib dot com
> >
>
>
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