credit card

Posted Sep 19, 2002 14:07 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: credit card by Trav
Parent article: LWN status update

We will have paypal as an option. European-style direct bank transfers will be harder for us to arrange in the near future; at some point I guess we'll have to figure out a way to make those work.

credit card

Posted Sep 19, 2002 15:10 UTC (Thu) by walter (guest, #799) [Link] (1 responses)

Please note that bank transfers from Europe to the US usually impose an additional fee of about 10 USD.
How about accepting cash (Euro?), sent by letter?

credit card

Posted Sep 19, 2002 16:16 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

I would think that the cost of them running over to a bank, paying the conversion fees, etc etc.. would outway the money for the subscription.

It was the reason that Telsa G wouldnt accept out of England money for the penguin donations.. it cost more than it was worth.

Unless LWN wanted to have a +30% fee for cash transactions that is.

no credit card

Posted Sep 19, 2002 22:30 UTC (Thu) by KeineHeimat (guest, #2154) [Link]

why do not watch your log files and open an account at a (american) bank somewhere in the euro-zone from where most of your euro-readers seem to come from?

so for all 's, transfering money wouldn't be extraordinary expensive.

paypal (credit card)

Posted Sep 20, 2002 12:37 UTC (Fri) by Trav (guest, #2170) [Link]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it is not possible to use paypal without a credit card: From their Help page:

Q: Once I have opened an International PayPal account, what will I need to do to use it?

A: For membership confirmation purposes, PayPal will charge your credit card a $1.95 membership fee. The charge will accompany a unique, randomly generated 4 digit Member Number.

"International" here means outside usa. Interestingly, they do not expect to have more than 10,000 international members (unique 4 digit member number!)