Please excuse this comment as I receive the reflector as a digest. My wife works as an agent for Dubus Magazine published in Germany. The cost of paying exchange fees for every subscription would be prohibitive for both the subscriber and publisher on an individual case. Dubus solution is having national representatives who process subscriptions in their native currencies. The rep then periodically sends a bulk payment that lowers the per-unit exchange cost immensely.
You probably have seen the tag on my signature line for Dubus. We are listed as the US rep but accept both Canadian and Mexican subscriptions paid in US funds (there are not too many of these). This is how some businesses handle this. Sorry for the extended OT. 73, Ed - KL7UW ------------------------------ Message: 27 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:54:18 -0700 From: "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" <e...@elecraft.com> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: following Amazon's lead regarding FOREX fees on international orders by cc [END of Thread] To: Bob Nielsen <n...@clearwire.net> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: <4c7c60ca.5040...@elecraft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Lets end this thread for now. We're a lot smaller than Amazon, but we'll take a look at this. Joe is probably correct though, in general all that changes is that the vendor (us) is charged for the transfer fee and we end up increasing the product price to cover it. 73, Eric WA6HHQ Elecraft list Modulator 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-QRT*, 432-100w, 1296-QRT*, 3400-fall 2010 DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@hotmail.com ====================================== *temp ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html