The merchant used at the other end to redeem the gold, the London Gold Exchange (http://www.londongoldexchange.com), to whom we can sell e-gold at zero commission, apparently only handles gold at present, and not any other metals. There may be other merchants in the UK with reasonable commission levels, who deal in other currencies. Both the colocation server we run dodo.freenetproject.org (the mailing lists mostly) on and the project full-time codemonkey are located in the UK at present. E-gold usually goes to the latter. I don't know if there was a specific decision not to deal in other metals; we will take anything if it is cost effective and reasonably convenient. Essentially the problem with e-metals other than gold is that we need a UK merchant, which I could not readily find, or it becomes a transfer-to-US-merchant-transfer- to-bank-account-transfer-to-paypal-paypal-to-coder affair; this is viable for $200, but it is not viable for $5. Using another merchant to exchange e-whatever for e-gold is possible, but is not much easier.
Aside: For example, ordinarily we wouldn't take Yodels, (DMT is a pain in the ass, and there have been a few scares iirc), but given the project ethos, and the offer from Yodel to do them for zero commission, if somebody wanted to send us $50 in yodels we'd probably accept it. On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:49:13AM -1000, Angela Kahealani wrote: > The online form you offer for donations of E-Gold restricts the donation > to e-Gold only, not allowing e-Silver, e-Platinum or e-Palladium. It is > possible to extract from your form you e-Gold account number and use > facilities on the e-GOld website to donate to you in these other forms > of e-metal, however, doing so would be a bad idea if for some reason > you have difficulties utilizing the other e-metals once received into > your e-gold account. What is the case? Do you not want other e-metals? > -- > Copyright 2004 Angela Kahealani. All rights reserved without prejudice; > UCC1-207. All information and transactions are non negotiable and are > private between the parties. http://www.kahealani.com/ -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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