Happy New Year to you all from the marketing department of Fidex, now that we're back to work and caught up. (Of course regular transactions continued to be handled by our automated systems and admin department over the holidays, while I was stuffing myself on Italian food and wine on the pretext of setting up our Eurogiro arrangements in Italy...).
Our Eurogiro system is therefore a little behind schedule but if anybody wants to deposit funds into e-gold or Fidex Maestro accounts using Eurogiro (the Post Office giro system) please email me for details. The cost of each transfer should be just a few Euros, as opposed to the outrageous SWIFT charges imposed by most banks. It will be operated by a subsidiary company we have already set up in Italy and as such we can also provide VAT invoices for our services if required by clients within the European Union. Moneygram is represented by the Italian BancaPoste and so joins Western Union for express cash transfers accepted by Fidex. We only accept these by individual arrangement... in other words email first. Of course 2002 means Euros are added to the list of forty-odd currencies we deal in cash, which already includes everything from Indonesian Rupees to Scottish Pounds. If you want to bypass the Euro stage and convert your DEM, FRF, ESP etc directly into Gold, we plan to accept those currencies until January 2020 at least for in-exchanges, but I wouldn't recommend waiting until then... Several people asked us if we plan to offer the Latvian ATM anonymous debit cards. The answer is no, not at the moment. I think Frank of Euro Gold Line and several other MMs are doing a first class job there already. But I would remind you all that our $20 (yes just $20) offshore Maestro card (no it's not Latvian, it hails from somewhere MUCH warmer called St Vincent and the Grenadines, country code VG) is the ONLY one which allows you to spend your e-gold dollar for dollar without paying odd percentages here and there. If you have $200 in e-gold you can transfer it to a Fidex debit card and go spend $200 in a store. Of course not all services come for free, but those two particular ones do. Depositing e-gold to your debit card is free, and spending money at merchants is free with Fidex cards. The only concession is that they are not anonymous, you must fax us an ID and have your name printed on the card. Big deal, huh? Of course all account details are still offshore and top secret. Probably our most exciting innovation for 2002 is still in the pipeline: the **FIDEX PRIVACY ACCOUNT**. This will be a package deal of an offshore (Panama) company with bearer ownership plus a ready made multicurrency forex account which lets you buy and sell digital and fiat currencies, send and receive wire transfers, cheques etc all in the name of the offshore company, thereby guarding your online identity. The total cost is just $600, an unheard of price bearing in mind you can use this company for other online activities, for example opening merchant accounts for your web business!!! If you are interested, let me know now by email and we will have a special little surprise in store for you to thank you for being one of our first PRIVACY ACCOUNT holders! Finally for now I think we will be the only market maker with a local walk-in deposit facility in VANUATU, country code VU. Any e-gold users over there? Our account there goes live in the next few weeks. It will probably be more useful for our Aussie and Kiwi and Hong Kong business clients as it will offer low-cost clearing of domestic cheques from those places, also in bulk so businesses can totally replace their bank accounts with an e-gold account. And no, I haven't been there yet... Watch this space for more... and remember to check http://www.e-fidex.com Direct email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Client Helpline at Representative Office in Stockholm +46 70 373 1772 Between the 3 of us who answer this number, we speak English, Russian, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish, Estonian and Latvian although maybe not all at once. Apologies to Swedish clients, we are trying to learn... :) All the best to the Gold community! Nick Scott Fidex Financial Services Group, S.A. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
