EU transfers in the UK? PayPal? How to receive money?

Post by **Rob** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:17 pm

mattias wrote:
namke wrote:registered mail costs as much as a bank transfer.

/matt

From Sweden perhaps. From Britain, International Recorded Delivery is a tenth of the cost.

Rob

Post by **mattias** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:33 pm

registered mail with a maximum value of Ã¢â€šÂ¬1000 is Ã¢â€šÂ¬10 from sweden to the rest of the world. about the same as an international cashier's check or bank transfer, which is safer and faster.

/matt

Post by **Sparky** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:46 pm

I only ever lost money WHEN I sent it registered and they insisted that they wrote that it contained 70 euros cash on the front! Of course it never surfaced in Germany and it took me about 6 months and many filthy letters to get my "insured" money back from the PO who said it wasn't their fault!! Have had hundreds of successful transactions since using standard airmail and a piece of kitchen foil to stop them seeing the money against a strong light. Never send much that way though- split it into 30 euro lots to minimise the just in case. I wish more people would accept paypal though.

Mark

Post by **namke** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:58 pm

mattias wrote:registered mail with a maximum value of Ã¢â€šÂ¬1000 is Ã¢â€šÂ¬10 from sweden to the rest of the world. about the same as an international cashier's check or bank transfer, which is safer and faster.

... but costs Ã¢â€šÂ¬30 from the uk :roll:. I'm only trying to send Ã¢â€šÂ¬39 (which is why the Ã¢â€šÂ¬30 charge made me 8O )

john..

Post by **al77** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:58 pm

try the alliance & leicester - Ã‚Â£7.50 regardless of how much is sent
:-)

Post by **matt5791** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:19 am

Sounds like a similar charge at Royal Bank of Scotland - I am sure I had to pay about Ã‚Â£21 once.

Matt

Post by **Uppsala BildTeknik** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:15 pm

My guy at the bank would get back to me in a few days, he would bring this up this UK question with their "money flow specialist" who is on a business trip today and tomorrow.

Lets see what they can come up with, a creditcard thing or something special for UK only. Rest of the Europe can use the EU transfers so UK is the only problem-country here. (well OK, you guys in the US also, but I guess nobody will ship their reels all the way to Sweden anyway, with all them high quality transfer places you have over there).

Post by **Uppsala BildTeknik** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:12 pm

OK, so he got hold of this "specialist" earlier, they have had similar questions in the past and sad to say the banks in UK are EXPENSIVE and STONEAGE.

Actually 30 Euro for a money transfer was not the most expensive of the ripoffs either. Sheesh! 8O

I will accept PayPal in the future, if anyone from UK would be interested.
I guess EU-transfers are as good as PayPal for the rest of Europe.