Re: US$ bank account
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 in England). If they can do it, why can't a global e-commerce leading-edge pioneer-type place like Amazon? The mind boggles. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Re: US$ bank account
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 $. amazon.co.uk actually uses dollars and so do you. Hey, do they have electricity in England yet? I heard foot n mouth is a venereal disease. The UK has nothing on the US for isolationism... Paul
Re: US$ bank account
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! You try signing up for a US Zshop, or the Honour system! -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: US$ bank account
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 before with some random bank in Illinois. Be prepared to leave at least a couple of thousand there. Forget getting a credit card in the US unless you have a credit history here (it's taken me nearly 2yrs to get a credit limit beyond something most people would laugh at). You can get debit (like Switch) cards that will behave like credit cards when you buy things, that's standard practice now. Paul
Re: US$ bank account
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 balance, but US$10K just sounds silly. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our latest and greatest operating system which we couldn't be arsed to complete
Re: US$ bank account
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 in funny money. 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. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: US$ bank account
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 maybe it's cheaper to convert here? This is a funny Flash story of a Canadian guy banking US checks: http://www.xdude.co.uk/flashed-mar2001.htm Er, cheques, whatever. Paul
Re: US$ bank account
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 dump a few thousand into a UK bank (HSBC) and maybe it's cheaper to convert here? On the premise that HSBC are truly international, they were my first stop. 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. And this gross assumption that I'll be at TPC...sheesh. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
