Rieks W. Torringa escreveu:
> >The problem is that the taxes are too high. I mean, most of times, you
> will pay
> >US$ 20 just to send US$ 10 to someone from Brazil to Netherlands. And i
> didn't
> >even mentioned the time it will take for the software to travel from
> Netherlands
> >to Brazil by ship (2 or 3 months). Using credit cards would be easier
> and
>
> Well, air mail also exists. It's a little more expensive, but when
> sending just a disk
> there isn't this much difference (I use to send everything I send from
> here (Japan)
> to The Netherlands by airmail).
Altough air mail is fast, it's too expensive. I use to buy books and CD's in the
net, and the price to send it by air mail would be too expensive if you're buying
only 1 or 2 cd's. And besides, why use our money with mail when we could use it to
buy more msx stuff, receiving them by e-mail?
> >cheaper. if he send it to me by e-mail, i could buy and receive it in
> no more than
> >2 days! (time needed to check the number of the card before sending the
> >software).
>
> Well, for me MSX and the like is some kind of hobby. We like doing
> things with
> MSX and so. If there was a possibility of easily installing a system
> like this, I guess
> it's okay. But I have very little knowledge of Internet (as it doesn't
> really have my
> special interest) and of foreign money flows (I always hated economics).
Someone here pointed to a site that could solve our problems. Check it and tell me
what do you think about it: http://www.kagi.com
> That's why
> I don't really feel inspired to check it all out, I'm sorry. I guess
> there are some
> other ways, e.g. a club in Brazil importing larger amounts of
> software...
I talked with our local dealer in Brazil, and he explained that he can't import
larger amounts of software because the sales wouldn't be that good, so he would
loose money. And that's the problem: altough people from Brazil wouldn't buy
thousands of copies from a software, 15 or 20 copies would help someone to produce
more softwares. He wouldn't get rich, but it would help.
[]s
Mauricio Braga.
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