John,

especially for payments outside Germany I subscribed to a mastercard from
www.gebuhrenfrei.com

They are really "for free", their business model seems to be: you get your
bill per email, you have to pay in time or pay... quite high rates. BUT:
they do not charge extra for out-of-country usage, which is otherwise quite
common (1-3% extra)

So that is my recommendation for paying out-of-Germany as a German. Payment
by credit card usually also gives you a quite fair exchange rate. (to my
information the best available for peanut sums below 1e9)

Harald


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:21 AM, John Pinner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Jan Ulrich,
>
> Thanks for telling us about your experience.
>
> I think the real solution is for the UK to join the Euro zone, but our
> politicians don't want this!
>
> 2009/4/16 Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[email protected]>:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I just transfered the registration fee and was shocked about the account
> > rates If you accept EUR instead of only GBP, I had to pay no addittional
> > fee.
> >
> > So perhaps please accept next year the registration fee in EUR.
>
> We will certainly will look at this and I will ask the bank about a
> Euro account, although as volunteers we would like to minimise our
> administration.
>
> I think that we offer a wide range of payment options: payment by
> debit or credit card minimises fees for delegates and administration
> for organisers and is our preferred payment method.
>
> I think that bank charges vary widely, maybe other people paying in
> GBP from the Euro zone could let us know what they have found.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John
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