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[ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2

[ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Thu Aug 26 01:05:34 IST 2004


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Paul Jakma writes:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> > With Paypal in particular?  (they are exceptionally paranoid about
> > fraud.)
> 
> Must have changed at some stage. I signed up with them years ago and 
> have never had to send them anything, and i'm "verified", whatever 
> that means.

if I recall correctly if you're *receiving* rather than *making* payments,
it's a lot harder.

> > generally from smaller US vendors who (apparently) have to pay more 
> > to be able to process international CC transactions.
> 
> If you're into Ebay, look for german resellers. There's tonnes of 
> them. Search, then refine search and set "available to" to ireland, 
> and/or currency to euro - results will mostly be german dealers who 
> resell on ebay. (the germans seem to be big into Ebay, lots of them 
> selling cheap gear). They usually only take bank transfers though.
> 
> I avoid buying from USA for various reasons: Power adapters, 
> jurisdictional problems if the transaction goes wrong and likelyhood 
> of getting slapped with VAT by customs[1].
> 
> Stick to EU ;)

yeah, the customs one's a killer nowadays.  BTW do US->EU purchases
have to pay US sales tax?  I can't remember, but if they do, it's
double taxation -- not nice :(

- --j.
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