Re: E-Commerce site for Canadian and US customers

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18714
interpreted = N
texte = >I am based in US with a customer in Canada. My customer wants to sell >Canadian goods over my server located here in the US. His bank is giving >him lots of static about fraud, etc.Living in Canada, but having spent a lot of time in the States, my experience is that the Canadian banks are slower to adopt new technology -- unless it means they can layoff off employess at a quicker rate. Some Canadian bank managers still get sweaty palms at the thought of one of their customers using the _telephone_ to buy something. I chuckle when my sister (who works for a major Canadian bank) tells me stories.>I fail to see the problem. Does anyone have WebCat/WebMerch experience with >Canadian & US sales? Can banks handle either currency?No two countries in the world trade more than the US and Canada (even US <---> Japan trade is much smaller). Currency exchange should not be problem.Wendell Kozak Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: E-Commerce site for Canadian and US customers (Wendell B. Kozak 1998)
  2. E-Commerce site for Canadian and US customers (Pat McCormick 1998)
>I am based in US with a customer in Canada. My customer wants to sell >Canadian goods over my server located here in the US. His bank is giving >him lots of static about fraud, etc.Living in Canada, but having spent a lot of time in the States, my experience is that the Canadian banks are slower to adopt new technology -- unless it means they can layoff off employess at a quicker rate. Some Canadian bank managers still get sweaty palms at the thought of one of their customers using the _telephone_ to buy something. I chuckle when my sister (who works for a major Canadian bank) tells me stories.>I fail to see the problem. Does anyone have WebCat/WebMerch experience with >Canadian & US sales? Can banks handle either currency?No two countries in the world trade more than the US and Canada (even US <---> Japan trade is much smaller). Currency exchange should not be problem.Wendell Kozak Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada Wendell B. Kozak

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