bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

Tony Duell wrote: I think within the Euro zone IBAN (inter-bank) transfers are popular. They work from Europe-to-UK and back too. It seems that one of the Euro regs requires that any Euro-zone bank charge the same fixed amount for all IBAN transfers to/from an account with another (or the same) Euro-zone bank. So within the Euro-zone all IBAN transfers are (it seems) free. The UK is not within the Euro zone so I have to tell potential purchasers that, while I'm happy to accept an IBAN transfer there will be an additional fee of ?10 or so. So I presume that German sellers are used to free transfers and may not realise that it is going to cost you an arm and most of a leg to pay them via IBAN. Cash in the post usually works :-) Antonio -- Antonio carlini arcarlini at iee.org