[Osmf-talk] membership payments

[Tom Hughes]

On 21/09/14 11:24, Michal Palenik wrote:

> one of the membership hurdels is remembering to pay membership...
>
> as of this year, SEPA direct debit
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit#Europe
> is valid in all of EU and EEA countries (including UK)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
> which should cover a more than significant osmf membership base.
>
> is it possible to investigate ability to pay membership via sepa direct
> debit in osmf bank?

Unfortunately SEPA doesn't mean what most continental europeans expect 
it to mean when it comes to UK support...

I don't know about DD but when it comes to transfers it's not generally 
true (as people often expect) that there aren't extra fees - the rule is 
that cross border transfers have to cost the same as an equivalent in 
country transfer, but UK banks like to interpret that as meaning the 
same as an equivalent sterling to euro in country transfer and then slap 
on fees.

In any case I suspect we would find it hard to get approved for DD at 
all, even in country UK DD.

Tom

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