On Feb 19, 10 17:01:15 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I didn't know it was that much. Now thinking of it I do not remember > > what we used PayPal for... > > Clare College would only accept one large group booking for > accommodation (and accommodation is ridiculously expensive and generally > quite hard to find in Cambridge outside the colleges), so we decided to > book for most everyone coming to the conference and pay Clare ourselves, > then collect the money off everyone who wasn't sponsored. At first, we > tried to use PayPal for this.
Ah, thanks! > > Anyway, I'm rather interested what the Brazilian bank mafia had to do > > with all this? I doubt anybody thought these scaming mails were for > > real and something to be worth investing?!? > > Haha, of course not. :) It was wiring money to two of the Brazilians we > sponsored to come to XDS 2007. 5k? OMFG. Well, ok, it's only 2,5k per person, and currently I don't know what flights to Brazil cost... sounds a bit much, but if everything was delayed due to issues (or if this includes a second, successful, attempt at getting the tickets) it's reasonable. Thanks again, Daniel Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[email protected]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [email protected] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
