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In March 2004 I started a thread on the Balearic Jobs
message board on the subject of money transfering services
(which is still there! Click here
to see it).
A lot of people have problems sending money home cheaply
and quickly internationally, so I asked the Balearic
Jobs community and this is the list of services that
they came up with;
"ultrafunk" suggested;
Western
Union
Western Union Locations in the Balearics (from Western
Unions Site)THE PHONE BOX
CALLE DES CALO S,N
EDIFICIO CALAS DE IBIZA CALA DE BOU
BALEARES , IBIZA 07839
(34 ) ( ) 902010701
Could not find any in Mallorca or Menorca.
"I" suggested
Start with Eurocheque, International Money
Order or bank cheque.
Below are the banks in
Balearic Islands. Send an email to the London
representative listed below. Try to find a European
bank with a branch where you are working.
Banca March - Banca
March -
Banco de Crédito Balear - Banco
de Crédito Balear -
19 B, Craven
Road
Londres-W2 3BP
REINO UNIDO
Tel.: 0044 207 402 73 93
Fax: 0044 207 402 78 35
E-mail: london@bancopopular.es
chrissiemurray suggested
There´s an option called SWIFT to pay back
loans or Credit Cards which is free when you have
the account details of the company you are sending
the money to. call them up and get the Sort code,
Reference no, PAYE and Post-Code for the company.
add to that your name and address and e.g. full Visa
number and you can send money with no charge. Also,
if you send a Euro cheque to the payments, barclaycard
said they would not charge for the currency transfer.
ask your card or loan company. there are a lot of
us in this situation and they each have protocol for
it.and finally "driven" suggested;I also
needed to transfer money from a foreign country back
to my family in Romania. After doing some research
on the web I narrowed my selection to 3 companies:
paypal,
2checkout
and iKobo.
To my unpleasant surprise paypal didn't cover Romania,
and 2cO's setup fee was too high for me to afford,
so my only option remained iKobo. After creating my
account free of charge at www.iKobo.com I put money
into the account. After 5 business days my family
received a visa plus card and then could withdraw
the money from a visa ATM. So far everything was ok,
I hope things will stay this way.
In summary;
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