Phoebus Dokos wrote: > ??? 9/11/2002 11:30:47 ??, ?/? Jochen Merz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ??????: > <Snip of banking details> > I understand... and in any case you are a lot more qualified to answer this :-)
Yes, and this "qualification" has cost me a lot of money :-( > (My > experience is only between Greece and the US and US and UK -ask Bill Waugh ;-) - > for bank transfer and with PayPal for more than one countries...) > However and after what you said, it seems that the best solution is to send Euros > in cash :-) It is in many cases (see other mail). For paying small amounts like 10 or 20 EUR, cash is by far the cheapest (provided, it arrives). Banks always had excuses, money conversion, different banking systems etc. I can understand that there are some problems between different continents with different currencies and bank numbering systems etc. I don't really want to criticise that some things may cost the money they asked for. But you had choices in the past, which you don't have anymore. They got rid of Eurocheques. That was, in my opinion, a very good, cheap and reliable payment method, for both private and business people. Of course, cheap and reliable, that had to be removed. Now the EUR has come and money transfers within the EUR zone are still expensive - well, banks blame it on the numbering systems again. OF COURSE! They ONLY had 10 to 20 years to know the EUR was eventually coming, and ONLY 5 years to KNOW it WILL come - and even now THAT they have introduced the IBAN (international banking number) there is no bank I'm aware of which offers you forms where you can type in the IBAN. And the costs have not gone down either. Jochen
