BANK TRANSFER IS THE WAY TO GO !!!

I don't know about any other Banks, but mine is Abbey and I gave the buyer from Belgium my details and it was in my account WITHOUT ANY CHARGES 2 days later and I have just had a letter from Abbey acknowledging it...all free

I have done many, many Bank Transfers between me and my UK customers and this was the first European Transfer, it was so easy and really convienient and FREE

I am now trying to find out if it's the same for the rest of the world transfers (NZ, Australia, Canada, USA etc) but I am sure there is a charge on them

Please be careful not to give French and Belgian sellers the idea that bank transfer is a viable means of paying them from the UK, or indeed from the USA or many other countries. In the overwhelming majority of cases it is NOT.

Most banks make exorbitant charges for it, in the case of most delcampe sales many times the value of the object being bought. When I drew the attention of a manager at the NatWest Bank to the service offered by Moneybookers and asked him if he himself would use his own bank's service in preference, he readily admitted that of course he wouldn't . His customers may be stupid, but he isn't.

Char