Glad I could be of help. BTW, because of one of those "I keep forgetting the darn check at work" things, I only deposited it yesterday... So there you go.
j Mark wrote: > For those of you who remember my questions a few weeks ago about how to > send > money to Argentina, the answer is to be part of an exceptional group of > individuals like the PDML. > > The problem was how to send payment so that it would arrive in the form of > U.S. > dollars. This is important because of the economic situation and banking > problems in Argentina at the moment: Any kind of international money order > or > wire transfer would get converted to pesos at the "official" rate and the > seller, Martin Trucco, would have been effectively screwed. > > Juan Buhler offered to have his mother in law, who lives in Buenos Aires > and > just happened to be visiting him at the time, carry cash over for me. To > make a > long story short, a couple of weeks ago I sent Juan a check for $500.00, > his > mother in law took cash to Buenos Aires and today I received my lens in the > mail. I thought really couldn't afford it at the time but the news reports > from > Argentina made me realize how well off I am over here and how little right > I > have to complain about not having money compared to many other people in > the > world. It's nice to have a group of people who I can trust to carry out a > transaction like this. ===== -- Juan J. Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
