Dear GerardM,
please just re-read what Delphine read:
Cultural differences and history are a big part of
this "money
changing hands" business. There are those who don't like credit cards,
those who don't have them, those who would "never do anything
involving money over the internet", those who have never seen or heard
of a check and those who can't imagine that checks are not accepted,
those who love cash and those who hate it, those who are paypal
freaks, those who don't trust paypal. In short, there are as many ways
of "paying" as there are countries and people. And one organisation
cannot accommodate them all.
A public discussion about how to pay based on different background and
limited knowledge of concret circumstances is a wasteful effort of time
that can better be used in other places to help Wikimania and the other
Wikimedia projects.
Greetings,
Jakob