I had to try three different browsers in Windows 8; Explorer or whatever they call it now was the only one that worked; Chrome and FireFox did not. And try both OpenLedger and the Light Client. Another forum member gave me the tip that maybe I also needed to update the system clock on my computer. It was set to automatically update, so I'm not clear on why there was any problem, but I re-toggled that anyway and suddenly the import worked.

Blocktrades works really well. I have used CCEDK for other things, but have not yet used it for MUSE. Here's the basic process for getting MUSE through Blocktrades.

https://blocktrades.us/

1. Buy some TRADE.MUSE on the decentralized exchange (using your BTS inside OpenLedger or the Light Client)
2. Go to the Blocktrades link above and select currencies from drop-down menu for TRADE.MUSE--> MUSE. Make sure to input your MUSE receiving address (the name you use in your MUSE wallet, not your BitShares wallet). Then click the button to get the deposit address (which is actually a specific code you will paste into your memo section). This is how you will send your TRADE.MUSE from BitShares' Openledger or Light Client.
3. From BitShares, send your TRADE.MUSE to the address: "blocktrades" (no quote marks) and paste the memo code (that Blocktrades generated for you) into the memo section before sending.

Try it with a small amount the first time and when you feel confident it works, you can send more. It's magic. The freaking thing is almost instant. By the time you get your MUSE client open again, your deposit will already be there. 

This is a wonderful article by a reputable site.

Quote from: puppies on November 18, 2015, 03:52:30 am

I believe that we need to give businesses that will rely on this transfer fee the chance to be built. 

There are businesses being damaged, which have already been built in good faith, that were relying on a competitive user to user transfer fee. As well as exciting newly built businesses like sharebits.io which would benefit from the lower fee.

BitCrab's Transwiser  https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,19968.msg256407.html#msg256407

Quote from: bitcrab on October 22, 2015, 08:29:11 am

China and US are different, you can see that eBay and alibaba have different charging policies, users in China used to enjoy free/low fee fundamental services, even 8BTS fee is hard to accept for them

Quote from: bitcrab on October 21, 2015, 04:34:56 pm

high fees will make unexpected trouble, for me, 41 new accounts are created for CDP after import, to close these accounts I need to pay many BTSs. not sure whether other unexpected trouble will come.

as Elmato said, $0.2 USD transfer fees make some project unviable. for my project - the gateway transwiser.com, it is still viable, but I feel I need to do some change, I need to get at least 2 lifetime members and change some rules, even so I think some customers will leave because the high fee.

Sharebits.io  http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2015/11/15/sharebits-ios-launch-bringing-crypto-technology-to-mass-market-solutions/

Quote from: kuro112 on November 15, 2015, 11:50:25 pm

we are doing our best to work out a fee-mitigation method that works for everyone, but in the end it will probably come down to the BTS network fee its self needing to be changed.

Elmato's  Limewallet https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,17900.0.html

Quote from: ElMato on October 21, 2015, 01:12:37 pm

$0.2 USD transfer fees make some project unviable.

Im pushing Bitshares for a joint effort of two NGOs and the local crypto community which one the objectives is to provide entrepreneurs from marginal economies with a way to use digital cash. (Its a bigger project ex-Worldbank, ex-UN people working on it)
 
Basically they will be moving an IOU, but $3.2 ARS is too much for the average size of that transactions. ($30-$50)

One of the founders of http://www.rootstock.io/ is heavily involved in the project also, so that platform is on the table also even if its on alpha stage.

We've heard rumors that there were businesses whose entire business model was just ripped out from under them (again) due to removal of fees. Thank you for presenting some....empirical evidence of this.

Okay, if committee members are listening (thank you), then here is how I would suggest you could please most parties.

--Largely keep the present fee structure, which supports referral fees and therefore enables marketing. To that default structure, make the following modifications.
--Lower trading fees as much as possible. (We need that business.)
--Direct the team to create a merchant identification process, perhaps at registration (Perhaps limit the monthly number of transfers by individuals; a higher number of transactions would trigger merchant pricing.). Resolve that once this has been created, merchants will be charged a percentage-based fee, while peer-to-peer transactions between individuals will be cheaper.
--In the meantime (while the merchant identification mechanism is being developed), run a short-term "sales price promotion" with extremely low transfer fees on bitCNY. On February 28, 2016, or as soon as the merchant mechanism is created and P2P fees lowered, the bitCNY promotion would expire. Until then, it's a way to bring us more users, and if they try it, hopefully they'll find much more here.

I'm open to other suggestions, but this is a distillation of everything I have heard so far that makes sense. Rather than a midpoint compromise that doesn't achieve anyone's aims, what these changes would do is to (1) salvage some funding for referral fees and marketing, (2) make the exchange more attractive to traders, and (3) give low-fee advocates both an immediate tool and the promise of longer term, lower transfer fees for individuals.

Finally, KEEP IT for a few months, making only urgent changes as needed. Let this thing develop and let us promote BitShares without continuously moving the goal posts and changing the expectations.

EDIT: Again, thanks for listening. I know you all have BitShares' best interests in mind, as do I, whether or not we always agree on everything.

This is just the biggest marketing tool BItShares could ever have...

Agreed. Yield or referral fees; either one would drive massive business toward BitShares.

When I mentioned different regions, I just meant the currencies that would be most logical in those regions. No geo-locating needed.

It wouldn't bother me at all if certain currencies got more business than others due to lower fees. This happens when a store puts items on sale; they usually sell more sale items than non-sale items. It's just smart business: You make money from a higher volume of business or you use the sale for a period of time to attract more customers who hopefully find other things they like and don't mind paying a bit more after a while.

If the lower fee thing really works, we'll find out by trying it, either across the board or in these limited "sales". If the lower fee doesn't attract added business, then we'll be confident that we could go forward with a system that's built for more profitability.

Instead, at the moment, we've split the difference on the fees, so we won't learn anything.