I am sure Harley wouldnt leave, but i stand to be corrected on that one, maybe she has gone on holiday, she is a lifetime member, so cant see her deserting us, well i hope not anyway

Reza: Yes seems very strange especially since shes just brought the black rook membership.

tonyh: The problem is that I cannot accept PayPal payments directly (find Czech Republic here). And it's not a good feeling to use other people accounts for that. PayPal was always a pain for me.
I hope Google's Gbuy will fill this gap soon.

About Harley, I am sure she'll be back. Just give her a time to relax. Everyone needs a vacation sometimes.

ok how many vacation days do you get (max)i think its 30 and is this the same for black rooks ?

Jason: i think its 40 days for black rooks as i saw some black rooks with 40 days .. but i am not sure

i used paypal as well .. but i guess anything else via which i can easily use my credit card will be ok as well :)

As most of you know, I take payments for people who wanted to mail their payments. If you need to use Paypal, contact me, and I can take your payments and forward them to Fencer.

Eriisa: Does it matter from which country??

gogul: nope. My ebay business takes internation funds all the time.

Eriisa: Thanks for that, thats billiant.

Eriisa: Thats a good solution so far

Fencer: I checked paypal like you asked. that bites that you cannot accept payments (but can send money) through PayPal. Is this something with PayPal or does it have to do with some Czech law governing incomming moneies?

Google's GBuy is expected out June 28th. I too hope that it will work and be released on time.

Summertop: Is there a link t Gbuy? I was looking but didn't find one.

I'm always looking at new options for payments with my ebay business.

Eriisa: No, but if you do a google search, you can find a Forbe's article about it.

Antje: Do what I do. Check today's exchange rate.
http://www.xe.com/ With this knowledge you go down to the liquor store or Post Office and buy a money order. It costs between 35¢ and 95¢ depending on where you go. Make sure they sell international money orders, otherwise go somewhere else. There's no extra charge for international money orders and that's what you need when Filip goes to cash it in at his bank or they'll charge him for it. Buy the money order and then mail it to Filip in the Czech Republic. Postage was 80¢ the last time I did this. I just checked, it appears rates have gone up. It is now 84¢
Airmail Letter Post 4 - 7 Days $0.84
http://ircalc.usps.gov/intl_speed.asp?CID=10086&MailType=envelope&Pounds=0&Ounces=1 There's a link on the rates page about what can be sent to the Czech Replubic.
Ask Filip for the mailing address. When you mail the money order include your account number and handle with it. And put some neat stamps on it for Filip. :)

I haven't tried the customer service route in the United States. Seems like Eriisa has been doing it for awhile, it works well, and the postage is less for domestic mail.
http://brainking.info/service.html Customer Service link

Walter Montego: Do you find that you get a good exchange rate at the liquor store or Post Office? My experience is otherwise, with UK Post Offices.

tonyh: The exchange rate for Euros at the moment is pretty good.

WatfordFC: I agree that the daily rate is good - but Post offices deduct their take from the rate - or charge you a commission. And Banks are worse. If the Euro is 1.44 to the £, then you can bet the banks will be giving you 1.38!!

tonyh: I am sorry but i have to disagree, i recently went abroad and got the full amount back, there was no commission, the rate was 1.41 and that was exactly what i got. That was from a small sub post office not a main post office.

WatfordFC: I will check tomorrow!!

tonyh: Please do, you must shop around, there are alot of travel agents now who offer no commission.

tonyh: What exchange rate? I buy the money order in U.S. dollars. I send it to Filip in the Czech Republic. If it's an international money order, they don't charge him anything to cash it. Least ways that's what he told me. If you send him a personal check or a domestic money order that's something else and the Czech Repbulic has very high rates for those transactions.

Example:
Today a one year Rook membership costs 30 euros. The exchange link says that today 30 euros is the same as 37.7058 dollars

30.00 EUR = 37.7058 USD http://www.xe.com/

I go to the liquor store and buy the international money order for $37.71. There's no exchanging involved for me or anyone. That cuts out the middle man for Filip too. There's the cost of the money order and the postage, plus you have to wait a few days for it to get to him, but that's it.

tonyh: I just realized that you're in England. Perhaps it works differently there or in other countries other than the United States.

Edit: Wait a minute. England? Doesn't England use the euro? Why bother with an exchange? Just get a euro money order and send it in. 30 euros in England is 30 euros in Czech Republic, right? Just like a buck in California is a buck in Nevada.

Walter Montego: thanks for that info. Ill try through Eriisa first, then if that doesnt work (since its Paypal??) that will have to be my next choice. i didnt know you could buy international money orders, thats a whole lot cheaper than international fundss transfer through a bank, which i thought was the only way! ill have to remember that for next time. Thanks for that info!

Antje: Your profle say you're in Germany and married to AndersP. I thought he lived in Pennsylvania? If you're in Germany, it might be real easy seeing how that's right next to Czech Republic. If you're in Pennsylvania, you should be able to do as I can here in California. Each state has different laws. Believe it or not, most countries of the world tightly control access to money, especially money leaving the country and they place all sorts of controls and fees on doing it. Also, the governments run the banks in most countries. The United States doesn't do that and private businesses can sell money orders and wire transfers. They charge what the market bares and in some cases it's free. You own bank, if you're in Pennsylvania, might have the money orders for free with your account as part of the service. They might have the wire transfers too, but it sounds like you've checked into that and found it to expensive.

Walter Montego: The euro is today the currency of 12 of 25 European Union countries: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland.

gogul: I don't see Czech Republic in your list, but Fencer takes euros. :)

25 countries? They've been doing some expansion lately, eh? What's with the other 13? Don't like the euro for some reason, or is it a case of national sovereignty and money? Do they other 13 have to accept euros?

Walter Montego: For specific reasons. Some choosed not to use the euro, some maybe not fulfill the conditions and for the new countries it will take some time. Next year Slovenia will introduce the Euro. Many of the Eastern European countries use the euro as a complementary currency. Czechia also belongs to the countries that don´t want to use the euro I think.

Fencer: Have you checked out Neteller?

I had a child visit recently and he banged around on my keyboard while I was on this site, and now my game pages will not load properly.... I only see half a backgammon board, or other games show no peices etc. any help?

Czuch Chuckers: Kid must have broken the board in your cache, clear the cache or hold up a picture of a backgammon board so the computer remembers what it is supposed to look like.

I tried to clear my cache, but it didnt help anything....

Czuch Chuckers: ctrl f5

Ctrl F5 didnt do ity either!

my pond games seem fine, but all the other games, I cant play....

Czuch Chuckers: we know that !!

Czuch Chuckers: That happened to me recently, just clean everything out and re-boot, thats what i did and everything is fine now. Hey it didnt stop you from thrashing me at backgammon this afternoon lmao

WatfordFC:

alanback: That is about the best tidbit I have ever heard! Wonder how many folks try it? LOL

Czuch Chuckers: Which browser do you use?

Czuch Chuckers: Try "View / Text Size" ...
then "Normal" in Firefox or "Medium" in Internet Explorer.

Thanks for all the advise.... I tried everything, and still no luck!

Czuch Chuckers: why not get one of the resident experts to remote link to your PC and fix it for you?

SafariGal: anything right now, I am about to start timing out in some games, or using my vacation time!

SafariGal: because that would be not possible and not wise lol

Jason: yes, i ws thinking the same

Czuch Chuckers: Do you have extensions installed? Try disabling them.
Do you access BrainKing through some proxy? Try a direct access.
Do you access BrainKing directly? Try a proxy :)

Can you see this game page correctly (that link goes through Anonymouse)?

Smilies can now be seen whilst used during a game with a non-paying member, is this correct or a glitch in the system.

WatfordFC: That is correct, it has been asked by paying members in the feature requests board.