Hello Hans,
Let me remind you first that I do support moving to a yearly
billing! Just not on this proposed tight schedule.
But your calculations seem totally wrong as RIPE NCC allows us
to pay through PAYPAL which means 0 (0 USD/EUR) fees for us.
Surely RIPE NCC pays the fee for our transaction, but even in
this case we see excess redistribution.
Moving to yearly billing, would mean maybe more excess
redistribution, but it's not very clear, because the money could
be redirected elsewhere. So no clear savings for the members.
With respect and gratitude,
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As a member I am conserned that RIPE NCC
operates in an efficient way.
But even more important that my company operates
efficiently:
Looking at figures for the cost of processing an
invoice for small business owners:
states that processing a single paper invoice
costs between $12 an $30,
Bringinging it down to $3-4 for electronic
invoices.
My guess is that it may be even more expesive with
international payments.
In my bank it will cost me 3–7EUR to make an
international payment
(as opposed to 0,25 for a domestic)
So If I split the 1400 EUR into 12 and pay it in
installments of 117EUR a month,
It adds at least 33EUR to the bill in bank charges
maybe up to 275EUR
Which is between 2.3 and 20% to the bill.
So in order to save money I would definitely go
for the yearly billing
in order to save some money on my end.
From Gwens email it is clear that there will also
be savings on the RIPE NCC end.
Since the surpluss is sent back to the members we
will benefit even more if RIPE NCC
can operate more efficiently.
Hans Petter
LIR no.visma
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