Is there not some sort of phone bill pay system in almost universal use in
SA?  I recall a piece about that on one of the TV News hour shows..  There
might be a way to hook into that system from out side somehow.  All you
phone guys should know about that...I heard that some company was attempting
to get a similar system going in 'modern' countries, but good luck out
spending Wells Fargo, Citibank and that type Corporation to buy the needed
laws...
  Probably won't happen in the US anyhow.
  Don Hanson

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:15 PM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:

> No wonder no ZA/RSA vendor responded when I asked about Paypal. I suspected
> as much. It would have been better if they just said 'NO'.;-)
>
>
> BenT
>
> sent from my electronic leash
>
> On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Oxroad wrote:
> >
> >> But now I want to get my hands on the SA sliders. Where's James
> >> Cohen when
> >> you need him?
> >
> > I have a friend in ZA and we have done business in the past. The
> > problem with doing business with friends in South Africa is that
> > there's no easy way to move money around.  We found exactly 2 methods.
> > 1.) Bank transfer. ($40+ fee at the time. Kinda kills any profit) 2.)
> > Smallish amounts of cash in many different looking envelopes. (Spreads
> > the risk. Mail theft is not uncommon I'm told.)
> >
> > No Paypal, no Western Union.
> >
> > I'd love to import those windows (which would be the easy part.)
> > Paying for them is a PITA.
> >
> > Jim
>