[Wikimania-l] Wikimania bank account

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> On 2/28/07, Jakob Voss wrote:
>> A bank account within the
> > EU would at least help EU citizen because transfer fee within EU is zero
> > (of course there is transfer fee between EU and taiwan but it's probably
> > less if money is transfered collected).

Actually this is not true. I know that in some countries the transfert
is zero commission, but this is not true in other countries. The
"rules" is that for a transfer inside the "agree-zone" (it is not all
of the Europe, nor all of the euro zone) is charged the same way a
domestic transfer . But since it is not always true that domestic
transfer are free of charge, not always the inter-euro transfer are
free of charge. For instance I would pay from 1 eur to 8 eur of
commission charge from Italy (depending the way used - online or at
bank office, the bank branch or post office, etc.)

I just saying that for completeness of information. I is always still
true that an inter-euro transfer is much more cheaper than a transfer
from an Euro countries to a "far" country

On 3/1/07, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> "opening an account in the name of" is not as trivial

I surely know that, and actually I was not thing that such system
could be available for this (2007) wikimania, but it can be something
that somebody may think for a future edition.

It would be also interesting to compare the overall cost for the
receiving  part. Usually credit card commissions for a merchant are
rather high, if it have not a big volume of affair.

> There are many considerations involved.

By the way this rise me a point. Is the person who is sending money
(in any way (s)he is doing it) enough informed for what it is paying
and who is paying (where the money are going)?

In page http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Translation/Registration_form
it is said to make transfer to "Association of Digital Culture of
Taiwan", but this Association is never cited in any other page of the
web site (except for some bulletins) and not cited in another point of
the registration form.

In the page that gives you the registration number, there is list of
money due, but it is not well stated for what.

> On the other hand, bank transfer is not always the means of payment of
> choice. My point being, the Italians may want bank transfer, as the
> Germans would, but the French or the Americans would simply never use
> it.

This rise my curiosity. Why this? Because every French has a credit card?

> PS. Ah, and using 5 different accounts to track donation
> money/wikimania fees/whatever else is *not* a good idea.

That's for sure. A workaround for this would be that this way of
payment would be available only for early payment. Actually I know
there are many points that would be needed to be addressed (for
instance you would have to move personal details from inside the EU to
a different country)

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