It is no good to send cheques to Europe. The banking fees there are 25% of the value of the cheque! It is better to send a banker draft instead. No fees for them. Rosin www.hrastovac.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick and Jeanette Bachmann" <bachmannfamily@att.net> To: <BANAT@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:10 AM Subject: [BANAT-L] Purchase of Lowrin FB >I ordered this book from Frau Schauermann and sent her a check for $35 > as recommended. Unfortunately, when she deposited the check at her > bank, they took 9 Euro for various fees, leaving us over 16 Euro > short. She mailed me a letter back with the description of the extra > charges. So I changed some dollars for Euro at the airport > international terminal and put 20 Euro cash in the mail to her today. > > I recommend that if you are going to purchase this book by sending a > check in dollars, be very conservative on the exchange rate and > include at least an extra 9 Euro for the bank charges. > The book is 20 Euro, the postage is 10 Euro and the bank charges 9 > Euro to convert from dollars to Euro, so I would send the dollar > equivalent of at least 40 Euro. > > Rick Bachmann > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message