[muglo] Re: Adobe Acrobat for 8.6 or 9.2 (internet payments)

I'm using PayPal with both Canadian and Euro/US dollar accounts and it's
great, for me, at least. Never had a problem and I do not have to give out
any private info. 

Transfers from my US-dollar account to my regular Canadian bank have never
taken more than 48 hours, and payments from US and International clients is
normally 2-3 working days for the funds to clear... If one of my European
customers paid me today in Euros, the money would be in my Canadian bank and
available to me by next tues/wed at the latest... If they mailed a check, I
could count on access to the money in 10-12 days!. I find it very easy to
convince clients to use PayPal... I remind them that if they use a corporate
credit card, it gives them another 30 days free credit!

On the UK internet... Most Europeans still pay for their telephone on a
minute-by-minute basis! I wouldn't be on the internet either if it was
costing me a buck or so a minute even on a local call! Fortunately, DSL is
now appearing and most Brits and other Europeans have been using digital
satellite for many years.... I've always found produce incredibly fresh and
a huge variety ay most Sainsbury's in the UK and you can go for days without
eating any meat by visiting any of the Indian food stores.

Garth.

>> Martin A has told me a bit more about PrintToPDF, which is still
>> available as a download, but it involves paying online, which I
>> detest, even from a secure site.
> 
> Do you ever give out your credit card over the phone or use phone-banking?
> Do you ever allow someone to make a physical imprint of your credit card
> (the way CC payments used to be processed before the advent of card
> readers). If so, you should be aware that these are [often much] *less*
> secure than paying on-line, especially if you ever use a cordless phone or
> cell phone to make your calls (with a cheap $50 receiver you can tune into
> any cordless phone, and for only a little more you can tune into analogue
> cell calls). A physical imprint of your credit card is the worst for your
> personal security -- not only do people have you CC number, name and expirey
> date, but they *also* have your signature. All they need is your birth date
> and they can start doing nasty stuff in your name.
> 
> Anyway, I understand your skepticism of paying on-line. For the longest time
> I was leery of it and never thought I'd dare use it (even though I'd been
> banking on-line for years). That was about a year ago. Now I do as much
> on-line as possible (more convenient). A lot of companies are giving
> discounts if you use their on-line service rather than calling in or doing
> things in person, and on-line transactions are inherently more secure than
> those conducted in person (since less information is transferred).
> 
> Also, if you're leery of paying on-line to just anyone with your credit
> card, you may want to open up a PayPal or Kagi account which act as
> intermediaries btween you and the merchant. Both are reputable companies
> with secure connections.
> 
> PS Am finding the UK an interesting place to observe. Web access is slow
> compared to Canada, smoking is still culturally accepted and accepted in
> public places, food is *horribly* meat-centric (& they even put meat in
> their pies... shudder), everything is pasturised, even freshly squeezed OJ
> sold in the supermarket (the pre-packaged OJ here tastes like tang), the
> vegetarian selection is pretty limited (about where Canada was 5-6 years
> ago... soya milk... I've *only* found 1 L So Good plain (no flavours,
> nothing like Beatrice 's fruit-concoctions (yummy)) and some fruits
> (oranges) and veggies are pretty bland or unpalatable (zucchinis have been a
> dismal failure whenever I got them.... bitter).
> 
> But there are upsides to the food too, more than compensating for the
> drawbacks: the markets are wonderful and the apples and pears are *amazing*,
> they have lots of good Dutch & European cheeses  and some excellent local
> cheddars (I like (the cheap) Red Leicster (spelling?)), a *wide* range of
> Indian foods (lots of premade sauces) and lots of organic stuff (& lots of
> bakeries with fresh bread)!
> 
> The entertainment and TV culture is interestingly different (from my
> Canadian POV). They still bleep afew "dirty" words (piss-ing/-ed off/-er is
> the only one I've noticed) but fortunately fewer than in Canada and they
> don't have the debased NA puritanical phobia/obession regarding nudity. They
> also have religious services on the BBC (shocked the hell out of me when I
> first figured out what I was listening to on *public* radio).
> 
> The "debate" about a gay preist (or cardinal or whatever) shows an
> interesting aspect of UK society (maybe my take on things will change with
> further observations). In Canada we'd have some pretty nasty vitriole about
> the evilness of homosexuality/homosexuals followed by a platitude like "love
> thy neighbour" (so long as they're straight ;) (as evidenced by the filth
> coming out of Canadians' mouths about gay marriage). Here the clergy make
> noise but it seems like real people are not scandalised by the thought of
> having a gay guy ordained (maybe this is b/c most peopole here don't care
> about/for religion). In contrast to that ambivalence about something that
> would be a hot button issue back in Canada it seems that xenophobia is  all
> too common (not that we don't have anti-immigrant factions in Canada... you
> just don't usually get exposed to these anti-immigrant/anti-refugee people
> (except when a CRAP MP or Ontario Tory MPP opens their mouths :()... the
> things I've heard from a few locals about "Pakies" makes the hairs on the
> back of my neck stand up (it seems like they assume that b/c I'm white and
> am a native English speaker I am naturally a "like minded person"... but,
> this is only a minority of the people I've met (still a disturbing minority
> though)!).
> 
> Also, no real 24 hour news channels  or weather channels (& that's with Sky
> TV (digital cable service)... though, there are so many channels (>100 I
> figure)  I may be missing the2 4 hour news channels)
> 
> Anyway, tha's a lot of OT stuff mixed with some on-topic stuff. It's an
> interesting country. The UK has problems where Canada has none and vice
> versa. (lots of bureacracy here).
> 
> PS AOL is truly AOHell. Why someone would in their right mind pay for AOHell
> boggles my mind. (I'm using it only b/c it gave one month free while I look
> for a high speed provider)
> 
> L8r, Eric.
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