Robert Smits wrote: >Some of you folks seem to be grasping at any straw, no matter how implausible,
I guess you aren't aware of just how sue happy the US is. Nor of how trivial the lawsuits that are filed can be. Nor of the degree of stupidity/ignorance that the US Court Systems assumes that consumers have. > to keep from making ANY change at all, even one to ensure OO gets more donations. If OOo were better organized, the donations issue would have been solved years ago. However OOo is crippled on this, like virtually every other front, by a layer of bureaucracy that is designed to ensure that the project fails. The solution that any organization with even a mild sense of marketing savvy would do, would be to setup currency specific bank accounts. Donations would be solicited in those currencies, and payments made in the appropriate currency. > To address your point, all you have to do is explain that the donation will > be converted toeuros and show that your donation of, for example, 100 pesos, > will be charged as 25 Euros to the account. a) For any two currencies there are at least three, and usually more exchange rates which are "official". b) The difference between the various exchange rates is not a constant. c) The exchange rate for any two currencies constantly changes. If there is anything on the website that could be construed as the specific amount in a currency other than the one that the recipient's bank account is in, that amount can be deemed to be the amount that will be withdrawn from the donor's bank account. If there is difference between the amount that is withdrawn, and the amount that was displayed on a screen, then a fraud case can be filed. > Inventing fantasies to make it "impossible" to accommodate donors is both > churlish and counter-productive. a) This is such a fantasy that CitiBank has a section whose sole function is to resolve currency transaction disputes that their credit card customers had. Invariably the disputes are because the customer has a quote in US dollars that uses an exchange rate other than the one used by CitiBank. Even after all that is explained to the customer, lawsuits are filed. [A non-winnable lawsuit, but some people have far more money than intelligence or common sense.] b) The current setup clearly indicates that the currency used is the Euro. If an individual wants to know roughly how much the transaction will be in their local currency, they can go to any of the currency exchange rate sites, and note the caveats listed for the currency exchange rate site. Adding a second currency will confuse people --- especially when the amount deducted from their account does not correspond to the amount that was displayed on the OOo website screen. xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
