posted on August 9, 2005 06:02:07 AM
Good morning, Mr. Boswell Thank you for your notice. I prefer, to transfer 100 USD from my bank into your banking-account. Therefore I need your account-number,the exactly name and adress of your bank and Bank-Code. I hope,it is possible. Otherwise I order international money transfer by cheque from my bank to your adress. Mit freundl. Grüssen E Stamm
posted on August 9, 2005 06:22:55 AM
This is necessary information if he wants to do a wire transfer - but I wouldn't be comfortable giving it out - perhaps you could call your bank and see if they could give any suggestions on not having to give him your account # to do the transfer.
If it were me, I would request the international money order - the wire transfer probably costs more for him to do anyway.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Caroline
posted on August 9, 2005 06:30:03 AM
Thanks Caroline I wrote back and told him/her just that... I will accept an international MO or prehaps they should consider doing a payment thru paypal their bank to my paypal account. We'll see.
posted on August 9, 2005 08:31:30 AM
Bank to bank transfers are very common in Europe. They do them with minimal fees. What your customer probably doesn't understand is that your bank will charge you $10-$15, and (the surprise), a correspondent back (i.e., a bank that relays payments from his bank to your local bank ) will probably charge as much as $25-$35, which will come out of your take.
I wouldn't think anything devious on their part; they're just assuming that US banking has caught up to European banking on wire transfers.
Go IMO. I accept wire transfers, but only on amounts over $1000. Below that it's BidPay or IMOs.
Caroline