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Graham,

    I agree you get most of the sells from countries where
PayPal makes business, but you can lose a few from the 
others. There are some services like 2checkout to implement
a payment system (with shopping cart) which will take just
any credit card.  

Regards,
Cosmin Buhu
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Davies" <YahooGroups@ecrostech.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Re: The cost of money ...


> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Dingo" <nsjunklists@h...> wrote:
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> OK, I'm learning something here. Western Union is out. Credit cards 
> are good. It has also been my experience that you get a very fair 
> exchange rate with a credit card. Also a debit (ATM) card.
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> So, on to PayPal. I have been assuming that someone paying for my 
> products with a credit card through PayPal benefits from the same 
> fair exchange rate as using a credit card in other ways. Is this not 
> so? Is the credit card debited in the "native" currency and then this 
> converted to dollars at a rip-off rate?
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> Before I signed up with PayPal, people had a lot of trouble paying me 
> from non-dollar contries. Some resorted to mailing a wad of dollar 
> bills as these were cheaper than dollar-denominated checks. PayPal 
> has solved this problem and I've received no comments about lousy 
> exchange rates. Am I setting up my overseas customers for a rip-off?
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> Graham.
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