Tom Hughes schrieb: > Stefan Baebler wrote: >>> > Gary68 wrote: >>> >> I for sure won't sign on to PayPal. And I won't give my bank >>> xxEUR for >>> >> shipping a few bucks across the channel. >> Within Europe SEPA [1] transfers are probably the cheapest (for both >> parties, in some cases even free with certain bank accounts) way to make >> international money transfers. > > SEPA rules do apply when transferring to the UK (though most UK banks > will happily pretend they don't) but only when transferring to an > account denominated in Euros, which most UK accounts aren't ;-) > >> When I just tried to make such donation per instructions [2], i got an >> error: BIC code is either invalid or not in the list of codes for SEPA >> orders. (original slovenian: "Nepravilna BIC koda, ali BIC koda ni v >> šifrantu za SEPA naloge") > > Because you're transferring to a GBP account not an EUR account, so even > if it did work using BIC/IBAN the transfer wouldn't be subject to SEPA > rules and there would be no restrictions on the charges that could be > levied.
Should not be too difficult to set up a Euro bank account in the UK. I do not know about the costs, but it might be cheaper then paying for each Euro transaction an extra fee. Or use Fossgis or somebody else as a trustee. Just keeping in mind that are much more people living in the Euro zone then there are in the UK. Or just have a look at the contributer base, most of them are outside of the UK. So please do not waste money by not getting organized ;-) Thorsten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
