Re: T shirt Price Info

Robert Hailman wrote:

>Adrian Morgan wrote:
>>
>> Mangiat wrote:
>>
>> > Excuse me if I'm completely ignorant of economic subjects (darnit,
>> > every time I see the word 'Nasdaq' I think: 'wow, what a wonderful
>> > word! I should buy an Eskimo grammar!'), but if I want to pay the
>> > t-shirt with a cheque, what should I do? Can I use the cheques of an
>> > Italian bank? If yes, can I write thereover the price in Dollars or
>> > should I in the corresponding Lire?

      You probably could write a check, in Lire, for the appropriate
amount-- but then Nicole's bank would charge HER a hefty fee and probably
take 6 months.!!
        I think you need an International Money Order, probably available
through your Post Office.  I've never had occasion to use one, but I assume
they work the same as domestic money orders.   You would hand over the Lire
equivalent of $XX.XX (or dollars, if you have them) and they give you the
order in Dollars.  You, or perhaps they, would have to fill in the
recipient's name etc.   I think.  There is a fee, but probably not very big.
Plan B would be Adrian's suggestion---

>> The procedure is: you go to your local bank, tell them that you need
>> to write a cheque for American dollars, and then _they_ will write it
>> for you.
>>
>> There is a hefty service fee ($A15 over here) for that,
        That seems awfully high, even by modern greedy banking
standards.......

        It is not advisable to send cash through the mails, ever.

 and there are
>> cheaper ways to do it, but in my case those 'other ways' mean getting my
>> parents involved and I would much rather buy the T-shirt autonomously.>
        Hehe.  When I was in boarding school, my parents forbade me to spend
my/their money on records (now called CDs); kids didn't have checking
accounts in those days, but I did have cash, and the PO did sell money
orders, so.......

>I never thought a money order was so unknown outside of North America.
>I've never used one, so I'm not entirely sure, but basically what a
>money order is is a certificate that says that the person who's name is
>on the money order can redeem an amount of money as stated on the order.
>The difference between this and a check is that a money order is paid in
>advance, not when the check is cashed.>
I doubt that they're so unknown, just not so widely used anymore, what with
credit cards. But if you do much buying on EBay (I don't, but friends do)
money orders are the way to go for relatively small amounts.

Hope this helps.