Hi all,
I live in Europe and get checks through Cafepress. Now this is very inconvenient as European bank employees will basically laugh and point at you when you walk into a bank with a check as everything is done electronically and most people internetbank.
Here's what I have to do:
- I have to send the check to my bank,
they then send it physically to the bank in the US to be verified (remember it just came from the US),
- who then hopefully ok it,
- and about 8 weeks later I get my money,
- minus 12 euros (5% of my earnings as I get checks at $250, the max setting at CP) as bank processing fees.
So far the CP checks have cleared. But what if I wanted to sell through someone else.
Are there other ways of dealing with this? Is it for instance possible to get a US bank account from Europe? How do you deal with it?
CafeGirl
I live in Europe and get checks through Cafepress. Now this is very inconvenient as European bank employees will basically laugh and point at you when you walk into a bank with a check as everything is done electronically and most people internetbank.
Here's what I have to do:
- I have to send the check to my bank,
they then send it physically to the bank in the US to be verified (remember it just came from the US),
- who then hopefully ok it,
- and about 8 weeks later I get my money,
- minus 12 euros (5% of my earnings as I get checks at $250, the max setting at CP) as bank processing fees.
So far the CP checks have cleared. But what if I wanted to sell through someone else.
Are there other ways of dealing with this? Is it for instance possible to get a US bank account from Europe? How do you deal with it?
CafeGirl