Peter,

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:57:37 -0000, peter green wrote:

> > Not really. It exists because it seems that outside of a few European
> > countries nobody understands the ease that cheap bank-to-bank transfer
> > brings.
> its an option but there are two problems
> =

> 1: giving out bank details is often considered a bit risky, while people
> shouldn't be able to use them to get money out of your account shouldn't =
and
> can't are very different things.

I've never understood this - whenever you give someone a cheque it has all =
that information (bank sort code, account number) printed on it, so you =

*are* giving this to other people (you're also giving them a sample of your=
 signature)!  Giving someone a cheque was never considered a risk, so why =

is it riskier to give them the same information directly?
 =

> 2: last i checked international bank transfers are insanely priced for sm=
all
> sums (domestic ones are generally free), i think my (uk) bank wanted a fee
> of arround ?7 to send money to germany.

Huh, that's cheap!  :-)  Last time I checked, sending money internationally=
 from my bank would have cost =A322... I paid by PayPal, which incidentally =

means the recipient pays the cost, rather than the sender as happens with a=
lmost any other type of transfer (including MoneyBookers, Western Union, =

etc) which hasn't been mentioned in this thread.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England



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