Many thanks for all the suggestions for paying in France. I liked John
Palmer's suggestion. I rang my bank (Barclays) and I was advised that the
Eurocheque system is being withdrawn from the end of this year and there is
nothing to replace it with.
Well so much for being in the EEC! I find it so much easier to send money to
USA then to Europe. The bank informed me that sending money to France is not
that bad as they can issue cheques in French Francs over the counter at 8
GBP but to send money to Holland (The land of Olympus goodies - in my
opinion anyway) is not that easy as it costs between 15 and 20 GBP.
Dinkar
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John Palmer wrote:-
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:12:40 +0100
From: "John Palmer" <john.palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Suggestions for paying in France?
DInkar - to answer your question about paying in France from the UK,
have you tried Eurocheques? I have a Eurocheque book from my bank
(Barclays), costs £8 a year for the service. The idea is that you can
write the cheques in any Euro currency, then when it is presented your
bank will convert at the current rate and debit your account in
sterling. Just like using a credit/debit card abroad.
So your seller does the USD to FFR conversion, you send the cheque in
FFR and your bank does the conversion to sterling. You would need to
get the seller to check that their bank is happy with the Eurocheque
though.
I've not used them much, but on the few occasions that I have they
have been very useful indeed.
Or you could just nip over and collect it. Paris is only 3 hours from
London on the train these days, after all. Makes for an expensive
camera though!
John
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