Re: Flea markets, Con auctions and swap-and-sell Re: [OT] Selling Figs, old game

At 8:08 PM -0500 11/1/00, Allan Goodall wrote:
>On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:22:39 EST, "Peter Mancini"
<peter_mancini@msn.com>
>wrote:
>
>That having been said, I have my American sources for stuff. I bid,
send them
>the money while they send the money on to the seller. Yes, I have to
pay
>double postage, but my sources package them as "gifts" and so I miss
the tax
>and $5 handling fee at the border.
>

As I understand it, there are some rather draconian restrictions on 
international money transfers. Something about drugs maybe. But if 
you'll look at those backing PayPal, you'll find Deutsche Bank among 
them. And they work with Visa - who has an effective global network 
but aren't really allowed to use it. So I expect PayPal will go 
international exactly as fast as possible. Until then, I've gotten 
anime from Singapore, paid with PayPal, by virtue of people with 
relatives (and thus mailing addresses) in the USA. Actually, as 
that's against the rules I shouldn't say "by virtue of".
-- 

Michael Carter Llaneza
Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1991-1950

Devolution is very real to me.

Whenever I hear the "Odd Couple" theme, I get this image of Dennis 
Rodman borrowing Marge Schott's toothbrush.