[consulting] How do you receive payments?

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>> Yeah, that's not acceptable. What I do is to ask my US clients to pay
>> through SWIFT. It usally takes some adjustments on their part (the US
>> is IMNSHO a bit underprivileged when it comes to banking ;-) but so
>> far nobody has declined to do that for me. What you need from your
>> Italian bank is their SWIFT number and the number of their US
>> intermediary bank.
>>
>> This is a lot cheaper than paypal, but I don't currently have any
>> numbers. IIRC the cost is between 1 and 2%.
> It's already been said here (and my experiences concur) that bank fees
> to perform such wire transfers often seriously outweigh the percentages
> that Paypal gets. If you are aware of a bank that charges only $2 for a
> $100 wire transfer to Italy, I want to know the name of that bank.

This is a consulting list, I didn't think anybody would either write or 
receive invoices on pocket money. :p

What I wrote applies to amounts of USD 1000 and up.

Cheers,
	Gerhard