By the time I learned about www.kloeppelbuch.de, my copy of "Reconstruction..." was "in the pipeline". But I ordered another book which caught my eye. I got a number of emails from Kloeppelbuch: the first thanking me for opening an account, the next confirming my order, the third telling me the book was being prepared for shipment, and the fourth telling me that the book had been shipped. But I did not get multiple confirmations with different order numbers, so Tamara - you may have two books on their way to you.
As far as PayPal goes, I also keep a separate account for PayPal to access. Seems like a prudent thing to do, if you are able to set up a "free" account at your bank. It's not likely to be worth it if you have to pay bank fees every month to maintain it. But I checked my figures. My PayPal invoice also came in German (which I never studied, but have picked up enough to muddle through in the essentials...). I checked the conversion rate given by PayPal, and then checked my PayPal account. It was spot-on the amount that it should have been. But then I checked an on-line currency conversion table, and noticed that while the dollar has weakened about a penny a day for the last week, it was never as low as the rate that PayPal was using. So they're making money there... And when I read the fine print, I saw that the conversion fee is paid by the recipient. So what you see on your PayPal account is what you pay. The booksellers will receive slightly less. Clay -- Clay Blackwell Lynchburg, VA ---- Tamara P Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ============= On Mar 17, 2006, at 14:33, Tess Parrish wrote: > All the information that I had lost is now retrieved thanks to all > those who have written me in the last ten minutes since I posted my > request. The best email of all was this one: > ------------ >> I think I have found the book, Reconstruction of Old Laces, you want. >> Go to www.kloeppelbuch.de. Or, if that does not work, >> try http://www.xn--klppelbuch-fcb.de/ It is under their new books. >> Some of the site is in English, they will take PayPal and I saw the >> logo for Visa and Mastercard. I have not investigated further. Since >> the book you want is a new book they will ship it free. I have just bought the book from the site, and here's an update on the above, from a compu-idiot... 1) If there is an option for "plastic" (Visa/Mastercard) it wasn't offered to me. Check/Money Order or PayPal were the the only choices for payment method. (I chose PayPal). Too bad, since the dollar continues to creep upwards and, by the time the Visa bill came, it might have been a bit more favourable vis rate of exchange. As it is, PayPal calculated it at almost a dollar more than the Currency Converter did. Small potatoes, but cents add up to dollars, and dollars help the retirement fund :) 2) I used English for the account sign-up, but the PayPal invoice came in German. Disconcerting to say the least, given that my German had never been all that good, and has rusted through since... 3) The PayPal confirmation came at $25.01 for the 20Euro purchase... The fee for the currency exchange was not included, so I'm not sure how much the transaction will _actually_ come to. Somewhat important, since I have a totally separate bank account to serve PayPal, and keep only enough money in it to pay for the current purchases (so that it can't be "raided" by some puter-savvy "cowboy"). I'll need to "prime the pump" first thing Monday, and it would have been nice to _know_ just how much... I hope the sky won't fall if I don't do it till Monday... I was counting on being able to pay by Visa, so didn't worry about the lack of funds in the PayPal account. By the time I was told that Visa was not an option, I didn't know how to back out of the transaction (with the bookseller; PayPal is easy, since "pay" and "cancel" are still in English, even if everything else is not <g>). 4) Although PayPal seems to have charged me only once, I got _two_ confirmations of the order-process, each with a different (consecutive) number from the Kloeppelbuch, and my account also seems to show two orders. We'll see how the cookie crumbles, but I'm not prepared to pay twice for a single book, nor do I want two single books... At least they _are_ books, not CDs. I hope <g> 5) Pox on technology... :) PS The shipping, on new books, _is_ free (for surface mail, up to 20 kilo, I think), and there was no shipping charge attached to my bill. I thought something about getting the upcoming new Voelcker (nee Loehr) book from them too, since their price is a whole Euro less than that of Fay's, but decided that, all things being equal, I'd not desert an old (10 yrs? more?) friend/supplier for such peanuts; treachery has a higher sticker price than a Euro :) Anyway, with the book (Stil-Bluten, umlauted "u"; no idea what it means, or where the Ulrike's usual pun is) not due out till April, I have plenty of time to reach Fay via e-mail or even s-mail (on top of paying via Visa), which, by itself, is worth more than one Euro... -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
