[gobolinux-users] [Foresight-distro] Re: I'd like to volunteer. (marketing/ideas)

[Michael Homer]

On 3/7/07, Heikki Pesonen <fossiili at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 1) You can transfer money with Paypal using your bank account
> I can not understand their netpages. I mailed a question of how one uses his
> bank account and have received only "Automatic responses" where the same
> things are mentioned as in their pages.
> Does PayPal have an bankaccount in some US/European bank no. xxyyyzz to
> transfer money to accumalate it to ones PayPal account to be able to buy for
> ex. Gobo Linux CD?
That's how they do it, yes. They might not have one accessible from
your country though. My remembrance from last time I checked there was
that they had it in the US, Canada, and the UK only.
In fact, I just managed to find the page, and you can do it if you
have an account in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, the
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, or Switzerland.
> > 2) Most CC companies offer much better fraud protection than you bank
> account.
> I can relay on my bank account in Sampo Bank Finland and easily and safely
> transfer money anywere to any place in the EU  (seemingly not to USA were as
> we see from the TV series, bank robberies are very common).
I really don't think that's accurate. And bank robberies really don't
have any effect on people with money in the bank anyway.
But regardless, it's probable you can't transfer directly out. Most
banks will let you make international transfers to basically anywhere
if you go in to a physical branch and fill out the forms. They
probably charge a bundle for it though.
> > 3) Use a CC company that offers one-time use numbers.
> I do not know any "CC-company" - what are they?
He meant "credit card company". As in Visa, Mastercard, etc.
>  4) Gobo doesn't have a way to receive money in any form.  In order to
> > do so would entail some tax hoops.
> Taxies are a problem in my country too ...
Thanks for the information, Carlo, I was meaning to ask about that
myself at some point.
> > 5) Try using bittorrent to d/l the iso.  It has much better with
> > intermittent connections.
> I have tried Ktorrent but it has always been much slower than wget. Azureus
> were good, but I always get a strange "Can not reach ... proxy". I have a
> D-Link router before the ADSL so it's complicated. I asked help from the net
> but no success.
You could try looping wget -c and just leaving it overnight. It should
get down eventually.
> > 6) Email gobolinux-users stating where you live and ask for someone to
> > mail you one.
> I do not know any other in Finland - I am so lonely:(
I know there are a few in other parts of Europe, maybe one of them
will chime up with an offer. I'm hinting, people.

Many places you can buy pre-paid credit cards (Visa calls them "gift
cards") that you can use anywhere that accepts Visa electronically,
and that can't possibly cost you any more than the money that was on
the card. I can go to the post office and get one for $5 (~€2.50).
That might be worth looking in to.

As Carlo said though, it's really a bit of a moot point in this
particular case. You can try looking for one of the online Linux CD
retailers that has a "download-to-burn" service if you're still not
able to download it yourself.
-Michael