Hello Jim,
 > I imagine that having to send to a foreign country would add another
 > excuse for not registering.
You got the point. ;-)
So you might suggest registering by credit card, but another problem arises 
then. A credit card is not commonly used here in Europe (usually only by the 
few high income people (and those wanting to be regarded as such )). Many 
of the Americans (shareware authors being among them) don't realize this.
 >RB> On the other hand, some registration sites add extreme fees for
 > themselves,
 >RB> which further cuts down the willing to register.
 >
 > Is this prevalent?
I don't know. It is what I discovered quite some years ago, so maybe this 
policy has changed lately. At that time I looked at the prices of some of the 
major shareware programs in US$ and the amounts mentioned by the reg site 
here in The Netherlands in their advertisements.
From that time on I decided to make up my BBS with freeware only and to 
develop my own utilities (freeware too, but I'm not actively promoting them) 
for the missing parts. The only commercial product I'm using now is my 
Fidonet mailer program (Dutchie), but as a beta tester I even got that one 
for free. ;-)
Cheers,
Roelof Beverdam
e-mail: r.beverdam@a1.nl
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