Sending money abroad.....

[JoeBailey]

I need to send a small amount of us dollars to bantam in Korea to obtain some spare parts.

My own bank wants to charge me £30 to send $55 to Korea.

Does anyone know of a reliable service that will do this for a reasonable fee.

Regards
Joe

[Gixxer]

If you 100% trust the recipient, Western Union would be cheaper... or Paypal.

[asomaro]

Yeah - +1 the above.

I've used Western Union several times - pretty good and easy to set up.

Cheers,

[JoeBailey]

Western union will only allow an in store pickup to Korea, no direct bank transfers.

They were my first thought but no luck.

Edit; unless I have to confirm ID for that feature.

[Jamin_00]

I tend to use Paypal when I send money abroad like to Kasama etc but if not then I would do a BT and be done with it, a quick call to my account manager bloke and its done.

You should have the option of doing a slower transfer with a lower fee. Who you bank with?

[rickp]

I tend to use Paypal when I send money abroad like to Kasama etc but if not then I would do a BT and be done with it, a quick call to my account manager bloke and its done.

Just a word of caution with Paypal. I sent €300 to a friend, and 2 weeks after they received it - paypal took the money back from my friend but did not credit me. Their claimed reason was 'fraud' though no-one had complained (not the banks at either end) - paypal then claimed it was some automated system. I had to get the police involved to get paypal to return the money to me (despite them having removed it from my friend's account).

I know lots of people have no problems with paypal - but when things go wrong, it gets messy quickly.