Austman. Happy to do the same deal for you as Kempis is doing if you do not wish to bother with the long and rather bizarre PayPal set-up paperwork. I'll just pay Catman for Kempis, Joh, myself and you as a group of four, by the payment deadine and you fix me up in NY.

Tolarian Wind. I think to be fair to Catman, who has spent, and will still spend, an awful lot of time on this, he wants payment to be as hassle free as possible for HIM. If he makes an eventual single payment to restaurant, from monies in his hands WAY before dinner date, he knows it is all 100% accounted for, from EVERY attendee right down to the correct tip. If there were problems in this regard last year, with no-shows who simply did noty cough up their fee, I'd do it exactly the same. Catman has asked that confirmed attendees MUST please have all monies in his hands by February 26th.

I imagine most US based attendees will simply write a $US check, which just does not work for those of us overseas. Austman - Sending cash would be a headache for you and Catman if it got lost, as one of you is $65 out of pocket. Lots of folks trying to use their cards at Restaurant in advance, by faxing details etc, as per Tolarians' suggestion might/would create a paperwork mess for Catman? As no idea if there is a $65 traveller check, but I think only $20/50/100/500 etc?

I did offer an option to consider, for all attendees that wished, to have me debit their credit cards $US65 and absorb the merchant fee as a small donation to the event (I accept all 5 cards as a merchant) and hand a chunk of cash to Catman in March, but that got complicated due to daily $A/$US/Swedish Krona whatever exchange rate movements I guess.

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 02-13-2001).]