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

WatfordFC: I will check tomorrow!!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Eriisa: Thats a good solution so far

Eriisa: Thanks for that, thats billiant.

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

Eriisa: Does it matter from which country??

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.

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 :)

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

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

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.

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

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

I just read the posts. I had already noticed that Harley hadn't loged in for quite awhile, but is it true she's gone?

Why would she do that?

I have never had a problem with paypal either. Its going to be very interesting to see what alternative payment method is going to be introudced.

Jason: Fencer, please tell us what the Paypal problem is - or have I missed something?

I have used pay-pal for over 10 years without any problems too (but not as a buissness which is where the problems can be or so i have heard) .I wont even try the money brookers because i have heard alot of negative stuff about that one .

can we just use our credit/debit cards or is there plans to be able to use these in the future ?,

All other methods are either slow or more expensive to use .

I'm curious to know what the problem was with pay-pal.  I use Pay-Pal for eveything I buy on line. Have had 2 different accounts for around 7 yrs and never had a problem (not to say there wont be one  LOL)

But yeah, gonna make it difficult to renew now 

Antje: why not try the American Express money order, it should have a inexpensive fee

how does the international wire transfer work? when i go to my bank to transfer money to a european account, each transaction costs 60 USD. so i dont want to pay that amount to renew for a year over and above the cost of Brainking. is there another way?

ok, but i cant make a payment until a new method is found. Money Brookers requires a european cell phone number, which i dont have, i have a credit card, but how can i use it here? ive looked at your link, gogul, and it lists the representatives for other countries.

Antje: Select your payment type:
Wire transfer (only in Czech Republic)
If you can make a money transfer directly to our bank account, take advantage of this fastest way of payment.
Bank transfer via MoneyBookers
This method allows you to make a money transfer in more than 30 countries using local bank transfer with minimal fees. It requires to create a personal account on MoneyBookers.com. The basic amount is defined in EUR but you can pay in lots of other currencies using the current exchange rate.
Wire transfer (international)
If you have neither a credit card nor a PayPal account, you can make an international money transfer directly to our bank account. This operation usually takes 5-7 business days and the price is a little higher due to additional bank fees on our side.
American Express Money Order
If your bank provides this service, you can ask it to make this kind of cheque (American Express Money Order) for me (Filip Rachunek) as a recepient. Then send it via a standard mail in an envelope (ask me for my postal address) and when it arrives, our local American Express office will give me the money.
Money order
You can also send cash money in an envelope if you are not satisfied with any previous ways of payment.

I believe that fencer has also said that he is looking for a new way to pay also.
I wouldn't believe that about the Americans, this is a business

http://brainking.info/payment.html
I´m not sure if this link is up to date.

can anyone tell me what to do about renewing? since Paypal is no longer an option, what is everyone on the american side doing to pay? ive heard some rumors that the americans arent wanted on this site?? is that just something someone said, or why cant americans pay online now? or am i missing something?? obviously by mail isnt a good idea, ive always used paypal with Harley, but I understand she has left the site? what is everyone else doing?

rod03801: There have been at least a few posts in the past about it. From what I have heard, it is not a top priority for Fencer.

Summertop: I posted a bug report to bug tracker a few days ago about this. I haven't heard anything back about it yet. :-)

Summertop: You buy a 1 year membership and then click on quantity 2.

On the tournaments page, there a several tournaments where the due date was as much as 80 days ago. One of them (64 days ago) is even complete. Yet, they still show up on the list. Is there something I am missing?

Brain Tournament
Estern bunny

Czuch Chuckers: According to XE.com Currency Converter, 60.00 EUR = 75.7380 USD.

what does 60 euros equal in usdollars these days/

you can use firfox adblock image, works well

http://brainking.com/images/icons/1131.jpg

Czuch Chuckers: Can you see me?

Czuch Chuckers: It seems they are gone now from my friends list...is it a different script how these two lists are updated?

I see friends online, yet when I look at my online opponents, they are not on that list?

KotDB: well, that's backwards according to every other instance in which i've seen an arrow used to indicate the order of a list in a computer UI, and it's also counterintuitive. an arrow indicates that whatever it refers to goes in the direction in which the arrow points; where this is not the case, the arrow is meaningless. an upward-pointing arrow indicates that a thing - in this case, the list - begins at the bottom and progresses upward. if the arrow goes up while the list goes down, one of the two is backwards.

an alternative is to do what Apple does in iTunes and Mail and other apps that let you order lists by column: use a triangle. the point of the triangle, being narrowest, indicates the smallest value in the list and the base, being widest, the largest. so a right-side-up triangle indicates a list ordered from A to Z or from lowest value to highest, and an upside-down one indicates the reverse. thus if you interpreted the triangle as the head of an arrow it would be consistent with your ascending/descending theory - but it's not an arrow head: it's a triangle, whose gradual change in width represents relative values in a continuum.

so if Fencer just hacked the stems off the arrows and left the triangular heads, the problem would be solved. :)

plaintiger: That's not a bug. An arrow pointing upward indicates that the list is sorted in ascending order, which in this case means that the earliest dates are shown first.

hey Fencer - i just noticed that the little green arrows that indicate the order of lists are backwards...or at least one of them is. i saw your post in the black rooks fellowship about the counter and link for paid memberships, so i went and had a look at the list of black rooks, then i ordered the list by "first login" to see where i fell in the whole thing...and noticed that the green arrow was pointing upwards even though the list showed the oldest first login at the top and the most recent first login at the bottom. when that's the case the arrow should be pointing downward, and vice-versa. thanks... :)

Fencer: thanks

Vikings: It should be fixed now.

Fencer: I have ponds that are 4,5 and even 8 hours behind when the next round should have started