Hello All,

One of our customers was so desperate and tried all ways via PayPal to purchase our tool. So at the end he sent a bank check of $51.00. Since our banks in the Netherlands close too early it was until yesterday that my wife was able to go to the bank and submit the check to transfer it to my account. Well, I was really shocked because the bank transfer fee was 12.50 Euro ($15.50) so 30% of our pricing. Ridiculous!!!!

However the lady at the counter toold me that it must be possible to transfer money from any bank account to my internet bank account I have at my Bank.

Now before I am going to take out the PayPal buttons of the website and change it into info of direct bank transfer I want proof that it works. So I seek somebody who wants to purchase our tool via this way. Please send email and I will give you my bankaccount info. Thanks for helping solving this problem.

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Kind Regards, Fred

Hi there - is it not simpler to send currency. Surely we can trust one another. Joan

for what it may be worth.
When I had the Synthzone technics jam here in California and people from all over the world sent me checks, I took them to my retail bank and they came up with a similiar fee for out of country checks.
They sent me to a commercial bank that does not charge a fee for this. It happens to be Bank of America here in California. I had to open an account to get the checks cashed without a fee. The Bank of America would not cash the checks unless I had an account with them. I had a friend cash them for me that had an account with Bank of America.
Hope this info helps both this thread and those that are setting up the Technics Jam in Florida
BEBOP

Bebop,

We thank you and I am sure Fred does to.

Have you tried the KN7000 Explorer?

Hope you can make our Jam. We are slowly meeting our capacity, and after New years it won't take long.

Fran in Florida

Hi All,

AfFirst the good news: after some study I found that PayPal is still the cheapest. When having difficulties because of email account that is considered suspicious (like @zwallet.com, @msn.com, @hotmail) then take a free yahoo, moomia or refercentral email adress and you won't have that problem. Further news is that for payment you don't have to take a (Free) account at PayPal. My account is such that you can directly pay, using a credit card. I have to pay a relatively small fee to receive such payments, so that will work.

Then also some sad news:
1. My partner, Gert Jan, is ill; he has the flue. Moreover MS doesn't support its old Win98 and ME operating systems in any ways. The documentation is bad or missing or inconsistent. We seek ideas for solution of Win98 compatibility problems on developer forums, but nobody answers. Unfortunately also nobody replies on the Newsletter that my friend Kenneth has sent out. Compared with the results of market research our 'installed base of customers' is disappointingly low. Last week I sent out the upgrade, version 1.10 to our customers. I hope for everybody that this version won't have to be the final version. However even if it isn't, I expected that development progress will be reduced. Since the release I have been working for the tool: testing, handling emails, creating FAQ and tutorial pages, etc. almost every evening until after midnight. (Joan knows)
This all resulted into too much stress. So I will take it easier now.
And to be honest I am seriously thinking about raising the price of the tool in 2005 to some extent. So people have time to purchase the tool for the modest fee until after Christmas.

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Kind Regards, Fred

Hi, I plan to purchase your program. I held off because of all the problems with the PayPal. I have a PayPal account, I only used it once over a year ago. So not sure I know what to do with it. I don't purchase much over the internet. It sounds like Pay Pal is now working for you, so maybe I shall get brave and try it.

Marilyn

Fred, I have received ver. 1.10, thank you. I am purchasing a second SD card to use for experimenting -- I know I can back up my original SD card, but I'd rather use a new card.

I will get back to you, John C.