Are either Flattr or Bitcoin possible good alternatives? On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Christ van Willegen <cvwille...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Janek Warchoł > > <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> > wrote: > >>> From experience, PayPal is very easy to use to send money to > >>> someone in Europe. > >>> The currency exchange is automatic, although I don't know what the > >>> recipient fees are. > >> > >> According to their website it's between 0 and 4% +0,3$ depending on > >> payment method and country. > > > > Ouch, that's quite steep! > > > > David, since you live in .de, you probably also have a bank account > > there. If you list the IBAN (and other info) somewhere, in .eu bank > > transfers are free of fees... > > Only in the Euro zone, and they are not _free_ of fee but just can't > exceed the fees for national transfers. > > A recent contributor from France discovered that his bank took €3 > according to its conditions. But it would have done so as well within > France. Now while I have my doubts that a bank with that sort of > condition for a fundamental operation would be competitive (and so I > consider it somewhat likely that there was some mistake involved), I > think that would not be against EU regulations: you can charge all you > want for a SEPA bank transfer as long as you are gouging your customers > the same in-country. > > As a rule, contributors in the Euro zone have found transfer costs zero > or small. This obviously excludes the UK, and fees for bank transfers > from there are somewhere around the £10 figure or more, namely > prohibitive. Fees might vary according to bank, but so far people have > found that what Paypal skims off is the lesser evil. > > I will not list my bank data publicly but give it out on request. This > is my private account and I need to be able to track the source of > incoming money. The account also is not specific to LilyPond but to > myself, so if I quit working on LilyPond on a donation basis, I need to > be able to contact everyone who has contributed so far, and don't want > to continue having this account be the target for LilyPond based > contributions. > > A publicly listed account number would require a _dedicated_ account, > one which one can close down when the purpose is no longer in place. > Fees for such a non-personal account, namely a business account, are > considerably higher. > > Basically it is the same story all over: if you do things "properly", > everybody working the pipeline feels entitled to a more substantial > share. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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