>>And how come there are so many people from Australia into egold??! :) You've obviously never tried to open/operate an Australian bank account. As well as needing roughly the same ID requirements to get a passport, the incompetent, rude staff have to be seen to be believed, and most banks have closed thousands of their branches over the last 10 years to save money. I started using E-gold after I found it was easier, cheaper and quicker to send cheques and money orders from the US back to the US, to buy E-gold, than to have to que for half an hour, then negotiate with the staff who would as often as not refuse to let me bank cheques from overseas if they were made out to my business, as I "may have found them in the street". Not to mention that most (if not all) the banks here take 28 days to clear all overseas instruments OF ANY TYPE! This means money orders, postal orders, even bank cheques, cashier's cheques and bank draughts have to be held a month before they clear. Makes it difficult to sell things to customers OS when they find out they have to wait a month for the payment to clear. New Books at Discount Prices --- Send the right message --- + Today freemail + Get your free, private email address at http://www.today.com.au --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]