Help: Sending $ to U.S.

Subject: Sending $ to U.S.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 00 - 10:49 PM

Someone from the U.K. wanted to know how to send a contribution to the Mudcat.

Does anyone know what options are available for those who live outside the U.S. and who do not use U.S. currency, if they want to send a financial contribution to the Mudcat?

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: bbelle
Date: 05 Aug 00 - 11:43 PM

Credit card would be the best. That's how I do it.

moonchild

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 00 - 11:49 PM

Good suggestion.

Does anyone know how people who don't have credit cards can contribute from overseas?

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Aug 00 - 11:57 PM

An international money order?

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: Micca
Date: 06 Aug 00 - 06:40 AM

Most UK banks will draw up a cheque for you in the currency of your choice, but credit card is probably the easiest.

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: Escamillo
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 01:50 AM

In Argentina, the easiest way is to go to a Western Union office and deposit cash for the transfer plus a commission which varies with the amount of the transfer. For $ 100.00 they charge 16.00, for 1000.00 aprox. 30.00, and so on. Pretty expensive, but the transfer is immediate via Internet. They give you a Transfer Number, then you send an e-mail to your correspondent giving him that number. He can collect immediately in any local Western Union office. Cash to cash in less than 5 minutes.
I guess in UK the procedure is the same, but surely less expensive.
Un abrazo - Andrés

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From:
Date: 07 Aug 00 - 06:38 AM

I find sending money by either Bank or Postal Money order quite efficient and not expensive. In Canada, the prices range about 3 to 5 dollars for the service.

Check with your local bank and post office to see if this is available.

Here in Canada, it's easy to get Money Orders in US or UK currency.

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 03:53 AM

The best and cheapest way to make a contribution to Mudcat from outside the U.S. is to use our secure credit card server, which is on our Support the Mudcat (click) page. Pene asked me this over the weekend, and my Internet service wasn't working well enough for me to make sure. Yeah, the server is still there. Give it a click.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 06:40 PM

Is it necessary to be a member in order to use the secure credit card server? If not, can it be used from a person's workplace without getting into trouble?

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Aug 00 - 08:04 PM

I don't believe you have to be a member, guest. Go to the Support the Mudcat page and see if it works. It's secure on Mudcat's end, but I can't say what security is like at your company's copmputer network (or whether or not you'll get in trouble).
Can anybody say for sure? Can you feel safe transmitting your credit card number to a secure server, no matter what computer you're sending from?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Sending $ to U.S.
From: GUEST,Michael in Swansea
Date: 09 Aug 00 - 06:17 AM

Joe, When I tried to access the secure site it told me that I had to be a member. As I mentioned in a previous thread, my way of sending money could be through a friend's wife who has a U.S. bank account. I give her £'s she writes cheque for $'s, easy. Unfortunately she's out of town right now, I've cleared it with him, it's going to cost me a pint of Courage Best Bitter. My one question is who should cheques be made payable to? Cheers...Michael