Re: AW: [MiNT] shareware on MiNT?

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Bernd Ebert wrote:

> > Read again what I've said above:  
> > 
> > the shareware I wanted to register would have cost me more in banking 
> > fees than the price of the shareware itself.
> > 
> > In other words, cross-continental payments are a _MAJOR_ pain in the
> > ass...  and recently, when I had to send some money to my family in 
> > Canada from my new home in Finland, I had yet another proof of this.
> 
> One solution to this would be a system like it is done in England already
> (I believe the Webside calls it "interactive"). There is one distributor
> for this shareware-product in each country which handles the payment and
> therefore has to pay only once for sending a cheque or something like this.
> he then can divide his costs (and perhabs a little add-on) to all customers.

Yes and TAF has started to do some of this, recently.. ;-)

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