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Paying your participation fee
Within the Netherlands
For payments inside the
netherlands, please transfer the participation fee to our bank account,
details are at the bottom of this page.
Outside the Netherlands:
How to pay euros across borders with IBAN
Note:
After some discussion with our bank and its business center, it has
become clear that we cannot solve the problem for IBAN payments for
players from the U.K. There is only one real solution (and our bank
agrees) namely pay your fee in cash upon entrance.
As a necessary exception, we will be accepting cash payments from our
U.K. players. For all other players, our policy is still for payment
per (electronic) transfer. If you are not from the U.K. but are having
problems with the IBAN transfer nonetheless, please contact us so we
can help resolve them.
Banks use a communication system called SWIFT to send and receive
messages. The Bank Identifier Code or short BIC serves as a unique
identifier for all banks on the SWIFT network. You should be able to
see the BIC of your own bank on your paper bank statement.
The International Bank Account Number or IBAN is a bank account number
in a format that makes it internationally unique and recognisable. Your
own IBAN should be displayed on your paper bank statement. Normally
your own account number is a suffix of your IBAN.
Since July 2003, payments in the European Union that are in euros and
that specify both the BIC along with the IBAN of the beneficiary must
be treated and charged as domestic payments (We know that we sometimes
have to remind the UK that they are
a EU member as well). Note also that this applies to payments in euros
only, not the other currencies.
So, when you want to pay cross border electronically, usually your bank
will require you to select a non domestic payment on the first web
form. On the next form, you should be able to enter the BIC and IBAN of
the beneficiary. Optionally, your bank may require you to enter the
address of the beneficiary (This differs from country to country: for
instance in the Netherlands you are only required to specify the
residence of the beneficiary). Of course, you must specify the amount
in euros as well.
The necessary data that you will or might need to book your entrance
fee for Breakthrough 1940 from abroad are:
Beneficiary:
Stichting Megagames Nederland
(or short Stg. Megagames NL - in english Foundation Megagames NL).
Montgomerylaan 70
2625 PP Delft, The Netherlands
Bank account: 614146402,
ABN AMRO, Delft (for Dutch residents)
BIC: ABNANL2A
IBAN: NL30ABNA0614146402
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