hello newbie questions
Oct 23rd 2009, 6:57 pm
#31
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Re: hello newbie questions
hello sorry to keep bothering you just want to make move smooth.
hows the best way to move money abroad,did you keep you english bank accounts,did you move money over to a portuguese bank,take travelers checks and exhane for euros.
my move is set back until september next year,gutted.
hows the best way to move money abroad,did you keep you english bank accounts,did you move money over to a portuguese bank,take travelers checks and exhane for euros.
my move is set back until september next year,gutted.
Feb 13th 2010, 8:51 am
#32
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Re: hello newbie questions
hello sorry to keep bothering you just want to make move smooth.
hows the best way to move money abroad,did you keep you english bank accounts,did you move money over to a portuguese bank,take travelers checks and exhane for euros.
my move is set back until september next year,gutted.
hows the best way to move money abroad,did you keep you english bank accounts,did you move money over to a portuguese bank,take travelers checks and exhane for euros.
my move is set back until september next year,gutted.
How did you find the move? Are you finding work easy enough mate? I'm looking to move accross within the next year or so and hoping to move western algarve.
Feb 13th 2010, 10:01 am
#33
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Re: hello newbie questions
I send my money through Hifx. I make the currency deal and then my wife transfers over the t'internet 10k at a time from our bank to Hifx's account at barclays (that's max'm that you can transfer per day). You can check each time you send money that Hifx have rec'd it.
The other option is once you've done the currency deal go to your bank and set up a Chaps payment to Hifx (the bank will charge you c.25quid for this 'service').
Once the entire money is with Hifx the transfer takes 2 days max.
Make very sure you enter the correct Iban number else you could be paying it to somebody with a black turban on his head sat in a cave in Afghanistan.
The other option is once you've done the currency deal go to your bank and set up a Chaps payment to Hifx (the bank will charge you c.25quid for this 'service').
Once the entire money is with Hifx the transfer takes 2 days max.
Make very sure you enter the correct Iban number else you could be paying it to somebody with a black turban on his head sat in a cave in Afghanistan.
Feb 13th 2010, 4:23 pm
#34
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Re: hello newbie questions
I suggest you open an account with Santander in Portugal, then contact their Santander Totta branch in London (not one of their recent acquisitions like A&L) to handle internet money transfers from your UK bank, you will get the full exchange rate on the day of transfer with no charges.
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Feb 15th 2010, 9:32 am
#35
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Re: hello newbie questions
I wouldn't trust Santander with my money ever again!
Feb 15th 2010, 11:57 am
#36
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Re: hello newbie questions
I would head for the Algarve if I were you - more likely clients and more money generally even if its going to be tough for the next year or until the Brits regain confidence, It will take you at least a year to get going and you are going to adverttise quite a bit.
The secret of getting work in the Algarve is word of mouth - it takes years to build a reputation and only days to lose it.
Do what you say you are going to do, turn up on time, do good work and do not spend your life in bars !
You will never make the money you can in the rest of Europe but the standard of life is better here.
The secret of getting work in the Algarve is word of mouth - it takes years to build a reputation and only days to lose it.
Do what you say you are going to do, turn up on time, do good work and do not spend your life in bars !
You will never make the money you can in the rest of Europe but the standard of life is better here.
Feb 18th 2010, 4:40 pm
#37
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Re: hello newbie questions
hello sorry to keep bothering you just want to make move smooth.
hows the best way to move money abroad,did you keep you english bank accounts,did you move money over to a portuguese bank,take travelers checks and exhane for euros.
my move is set back until september next year,gutted.
hows the best way to move money abroad,did you keep you english bank accounts,did you move money over to a portuguese bank,take travelers checks and exhane for euros.
my move is set back until september next year,gutted.
Get online banking too helps quite a bit....
