Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Philip Newton
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Barclays charge between £5 and £10 to bank a check. Which for a month's work is fine, but for an Amazon affiliates payment is in the realm of ouchie. AllAdvantage, while it was still alive, sent me DEM cheques drawn on a German bank (which had been prepared by a service

Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:24:13PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like Amazon? The mind boggles. Because there aren't any other currencies besides the US $. amazon.co.uk actually uses dollars and so do you. Hey, do they have

Re: US$ bank account

2001-05-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AllAdvantage, while it was still alive, sent me DEM cheques drawn on a German bank (which had been prepared by a service in England). If they can do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like Amazon? The mind boggles. Hah!

Re: US$ bank account

2001-04-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book? When you're at TPC open a bank account and ask them to have the address in the UK. I've done this

Re: US$ bank account

2001-04-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book? Pretty nearly any UK high st bank will open accounts in funny money. There's usually a minimum

Re: US$ bank account

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Anyone know of a bank that will let non US residents have a workable US$ account with dollar credit card and check (narf) book? Pretty nearly any UK high st bank will open accounts

Re: US$ bank account

2001-04-30 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their online banking. How much is a lot? I'm about to dump a few thousand into a UK bank (HSBC) and

Re: US$ bank account

2001-04-30 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:28:00AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Indeed, I have one already, but they charge like fuck for banking cheques, have stupid settlement times and not hook 'em up to their online banking. How much is a lot? I'm about to