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Dominoes
Sep 20, 2007

Another question-

I live in the UK and am paid in USD. I've been paying my rent through Currencyfair.com. I'd transfer money to a US-based bank account they have, and they'd convert it and do a UK bank transfer. Easy, fast, and cost $5 for my rent payment.

Now Currencyfair emailed me saying they no longer have the US bank account, and can only do international wire transfers. I looked into this, and WTF? It takes 15 days, my bank charges me $35, currencyfair charges me an undisclosed additional amount, and I have to do it through a phone call. Is there a better way? There's a DoDCommunity Bank on base that has a ripoff exchange rate I was using before currencyfair, but it still might be better.

Any trustworthy Currencyfair alternatives?

Dominoes fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jun 3, 2015

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Dominoes
Sep 20, 2007

Tautologicus posted:

Penfed has some of the best wire transfer fees around so if youre a military dude you should use them for wires if no other options look better.
Thanks. I have that. I stopped using it a while ago since they gutted the CC rewards program, but left the accounts open. Looks like penfed's rate is $20. It looks like a site called Transferwise can do it for $20.

Dominoes fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jun 5, 2015

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