money to Russia, GOST standards to America

[David E. Crawford]

Re. my earlier SEELANGS query about transferring small amounts of money to Russia.

After some hunting around, the best solution by far that I found is:

http://www.cash2russia.com/

They charged $4 US for a transfer to a Russian account for my big $10 purchase.  The next cheapest option I found was $35 (international money order from my credit union that I would have to snail-mail).  The transaction can be entered online (https) and paid for via PayPal or credit card.  The outfit calls you by phone to confirm the transaction before processing.  There is a $10 minimum.  One caveat:  don't enter cyrillic text in any field that doesn't specifically ask for it, as the character encoding is not handled correctly on the website.  They expect Roman characters and corresponding transliterations from Russian.  The transaction took about 10 days from entry to receipt, but that was delayed somewhat by me screwing up the transaction details by entering cyrillic in fields that did NOT ask for it.

Thanks to Paul G., Alina I., Andrei B., Vlad R., and Robin L. for their helpful suggestions and interpretations.

As for ordering copies of GOST standards, a good source is:

http://normatech.ru/

The actual standards search/select page is:

http://normativ.com/

There are a wide variety of standards documents here besides GOST.  The price at this site is literally pennies per page, and the copies are emailed as pdf files (hard copies can be ordered for a price).  I've seen sites here in the states that charge rates as high as $8 US per page for the same documents.  Once payment was received by Normatech's bank it took them a couple of weeks to ship, but the response was complete and in order.  I needed only one document, but had to order 14 of them to use up my $10.

Hope this helps somebody.

dc

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David E. Crawford
Titusville, Florida
United States of America
28.51N 80.83W
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