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 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 paying the Nomad) would be the "usual" amount. I immediately > offered help for to divide the amount in CHF by the exchange rate > printed on the invoice and this changed things a bit. So if I do not > put the price in CHF on the form but in EURO the transaction should > really be for free. At least I've got the word of the stuff personal > that they will solve the issue on their account if this should be not > the case. > > So for everybody there should be a warning: If you use SEPA than regard > the exchange rate on the invoice for your transaction and use the value > in EURO. > > Hope this helps > > Andreas. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:46:53PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > 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 about this the idea was to allow at least one option that makes > > it possible to pay by credit card (most probably through PayPal). > > > > > > > > When I ordered my knife, I got the following instructions: > > > > > >> Most banks are capable of performing so-called > > >> SEPA-transactions, which are not any more expensive than national > > >> transations. Please make sure to ask your bank. > > > > This is not true for transactions to Switzerland. We already discussed > > this at some length last autumn. SEPA is only the technology used and > > does not have anything to do with the fees charged. The confusion comes > > from the fact that *inside* the European Union banks are not allowed to > > charge more for international transactions than for national > > transactions and as national transactions are usually free of charge, > > most transactions inside the EU are free as well. But note that > > Switzerland while at the heart of Europe is *not* an European Union > > member state. Some banks don't charge for SEPA transactions to > > Switzerland, others do. How much the transaction costs depends on your > > bank. > > > > Gaudenz > > > > > > > > The trick is doing the transfer in euro, > > > regardless of the currency and using BIC/IBAN. > > > When asked about transfers in foreign currency, > > > banks tend to only mention the expensive option. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Debconf-team mailing list > > > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > > > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > > > > -- > > Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. > > Try again. Fail again. Fail better. > > ~ Samuel Beckett ~ > > _______________________________________________ > > Debconf-team mailing list > > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team > > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-team mailing list > Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team >
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