hi can anybody help us we need to transfer some money from our barclays account in the uk to our wespac account how long does hifix take to do this as we need our money quite quickly we have an account set up with them already and did it all go ok thanks in advance for any help

It can be done in two days, HIFX also use Barclays, so when you transfer your UK pounds to cover your dollar purchase it clears immediately, no waiting days. Tell them you have a Barclays account and the payment will be instant, we always did our transfers in two days when we had UK pounds to sell.

We transferred money to HiFX on Thursday (via Barclays), got an email from them that evening and our bank in Australia is showing the money there today. So that's two working days.

Did you get any bank charges for this?

I read something about a receving charge by ozzy banks!

Cheers,

We transferred with HiFX from Halifax Bank to Westpac. We had neither UK bank charges nor Australian Bank charges.

Gina

we have been on to barclays and they say we have to write them a letter about transfering our money they wont take it verbally over the phone or by e mail they wont even give us are branch phone number to talk to someone there how redicoulous does anybody know the quickest way to send a letter to england :curse: these banks are ok until you want to transfer a big sum of your own money so guys dont leave things till the last minute because nobody tells you about these things we had no choice because our house sale took to long

This is normal, I appreciate the security but it is a pain. Lloyds is the same.

Ask them if a fax would do it. Hopefully you can fax it over to them. Explain your in a hurry.

Good luck,

there is a max money transfer via telephone with Barclays of £5k. I had to move money to HIFX in stints!!

thanks for that we have e mailed them to see if we can fax it to them we will wait for there reply

hi no they wont even let us fax it so we have had to send it in the post which will take 3 to 5 days redicoulous isnt it more time waisted:curse:

Hi everyone, don't know if it's any good to anyone but today I've received an email from Hifx saying they have teamed up with qantas to give discounted one way fares with the 40kg luggage allowance to anyone emigrating (bit late for us, we are already here) just need to phone to register.
S xx

phone 01753 859159 to register and quote qantas or email [email protected]

would it not have been quicker to move over in £5k stints???

hi yes that is what we are looking at doing just waiting for telephone banking details

Bear in mind though that you might get a better exchange rate if you are transferring over a (bigger) lump sum rather than a number of smaller amounts.

No what you do is ring up agree a price and then hifx and ozforex will wait until you have the correct funds in their account and will then send you the previously agreed money.

We did some larger transactions that way.