Re: Does anyone offer reasonably simple/cheap on-line dollar payments?
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- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:43:33 +0000 (UTC)
Stickems. <Stickems.@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:drksfm$n6s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Does anyone in the UK offer reasonably simple and cheap on-line dollar
> | payments? I want to make payments to an E-Trade share account to buy
> | some share options. This will happen maybe once or twice a year and
> | I'm trying to find some way of doing it that doesn't involve visiting
> | the bank, interminable telephone calls or similar 'jumping through
> | hoops' to do it.
> |
> | Of the accounts which I already have the easiest so far is HSBC who
> | can do the whole thing by phone at a cost of ?9 for transfers up to
> | ?2000. Does anyone else offer anything better than that, I'd much
> | prefer to do it on-line as it seems to me that it would be much less
> | error prone than reading out long strings of numbers and codes over
> | the phone to someone.
> |
> | I suspect that if more money was involved I could open an offshore
> | account of some sort (and/or a dollar account with a UK bank) but the
> | amounts involved are not enough for the costs of such an account to
> | make sense.
> |
> | Any ideas would be most welcome, I'm quite happy to open a new account
> | somewhere to enable me to do this more easily as the hassle of once
> | opening a new account would (for me anyway) be less than the repeated
> | hassle of making payments.
> |
> Use a credit card.
>
That would be an absolutely perfect solution if E-Trade accepted
credit card payments. However they don't.
--
Chris Green
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