Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-07-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'd like to give some additional hint to this topic (after just having initialised the transaction). I personally went to my Bank and they said that in case some conversion of currency is involved *all* Banks would charge you at least 12.?? Euro but 27.?? Euro (as I payed actually when

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-07-11 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Andreas, Yes, we explicitly ask to pay in EUR to get the cheaper SEPA transaction fees. Our receiving bank charges no fees for EUR to CHF conversion. Philipp On Jul 11, 2013 4:12 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi, I'd like to give some additional hint to this topic (after just

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-22 Thread Philip Hands
Philipp Hug deb...@hug.cx writes: As far as I understand it, you don't need a PayPal account to send money to a PayPal address by credit card. Philipp, can you confirm this? Correct, you don't need an account. We just use them as credit card processor. I can understand that one does not

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-22 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu [2013-06-20 10:43]: The trick is doing the transfer in euro, regardless of the currency and using BIC/IBAN. I did exactly this via online banking as SEPA. Lookes like you got ripped off. Haven't had any issues of this kind (and I've been doing several

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03:41AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: Yes, we'll allow both Credit Card (PayPal) and wire transfer. I do not have a PayPal account (and I do not plan to change this). Most banks are capable of performing so-called SEPA-transactions, which are not any more

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-21 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Andreas, Just to make sure I understood things correctly: Is the receiving bank in Swizzerland or the sending bank (somewhere in EU) or both grabbing the money? It's the sending bank in the EU which sometimes grabs money. But as Gaudenz said, this is only done by a few bad banks. Did

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-21 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: Hi, On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03:41AM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: Yes, we'll allow both Credit Card (PayPal) and wire transfer. I do not have a PayPal account (and I do not plan to change this). As far as I understand it, you don't need a PayPal

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-21 Thread Philipp Hug
As far as I understand it, you don't need a PayPal account to send money to a PayPal address by credit card. Philipp, can you confirm this? Correct, you don't need an account. We just use them as credit card processor. I can understand that one does not want to use the services provided by

[Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I had a very bad experience when doing money transfer from Germany to Swiss for my Nomad Swiss knife: The banks have taken extra 25 Euro for the about 30 Euro knife. So we should provide payment options that do not make extra profit to random banks. I don't mind paying extra money - but it

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-20 Thread Judit Foglszinger
I had a very bad experience when doing money transfer from Germany to Swiss for my Nomad Swiss knife: The banks have taken extra 25 Euro for the about 30 Euro knife. When I ordered my knife, I got the following instructions: Most banks are capable of performing so-called

Re: [Debconf-team] Payment options?

2013-06-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Judit Foglszinger fgr...@freenet.de writes: I had a very bad experience when doing money transfer from Germany to Swiss for my Nomad Swiss knife: The banks have taken extra 25 Euro for the about 30 Euro knife. Philipp Hug is more qualified to talk about this, but when I last talked to him