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1. Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Important Announcement

   Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-01-23T11:42:55Z

   > 
   > On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Joseph Heil wrote:
   > 
   > > Quoting The Hermit Hacker (scrappy@hub.org):
   > > > 
   > > > 
   > > > 	There are two new pages on our web site that I ask/encourage
   > > > everyone to read through: 
   > > > 
   > > > 	http://www.postgresql.org/fund-raising.shtml
   > > > 	http://www.postgresql.org/cd-dist.shtml
   > > 
   > >   I see that the cdroms are $39.95CDN.  Is that in Canidian dollars?
   > >   Do you have a converted price for US dollars?
   > 
   > 	Unfortunately, with the way that the currencies fluctuate, it will
   > vary greatly...but yes, it is in Canadian dollars.  
   > 
   > >  How about the donations, will you convert US checks?
   > 
   > 	Yes, this is not a problem
   > 
   > Marc G. Fournier                                
   > Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
   > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 
   > 
   > 
   Accepting credit cards would be a good way to get international users
   to buy. For a small sum, it really is too much hassle to pay abroad
   by any other means...
   
   Andrew
   
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2. Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Important Announcement

   Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-01-23T13:19:22Z

   > > 
   > Accepting credit cards would be a good way to get international users
   > to buy. For a small sum, it really is too much hassle to pay abroad
   > by any other means...
   
   	I really wish we could accept credit cards :(  Up here, at least,
   it costs something like $10,000 upfront with the banks in order to even
   get 'online credit card authorization' :(  And that is if they will even
   talk to you in the first place.  
   
   	Things were alot more slack 10 years ago, when nobody really knew
   what the Internet was, but when it exploded, so did the banks up here,
   sine there were alot of 'fly by night' operations :(
   
   	I've had one suggestion on how we might be able to get around
   this, using some of the online distribution houses that are out
   there...I'm still looking into it, but so far dont' like what I'm seeing
   :(