Thak you Barclays
#1
Thank you Barclays
Hi,
Paid in a cheque from my UK LTSB account into my Barclays.es account. Easy and painless and fantastic rate with no charges from either bank!
£2,000.00 > 2.451,06€
Paid in a cheque from my UK LTSB account into my Barclays.es account. Easy and painless and fantastic rate with no charges from either bank!
£2,000.00 > 2.451,06€
Last edited by missile; Nov 28th 2012 at 7:49 am.
#2
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Joined: Feb 2011
Location: Mallorca
Posts: 19,367
Re: Thak you Barclays
Surprising, because Barclays is reported to be the single most expensive bank in the world for inter-currency transfers. Horror stories include exchange rates like 1:1 when extracting cash from Barclays accounts using Barclays machines.
I use Santander (and get similar results) But your experience is encouraging!
#3
Re: Thak you Barclays
That is good, though if you'd used HIFX you would have got €2,478.71.
Just think, you could have spent the extra €27 in M&S online ...
Just think, you could have spent the extra €27 in M&S online ...
#4
Re: Thak you Barclays
I just logged into my own HiFX account: £2,000 would buy 2,438€ plus HiFX charge an additional £9.00 transfer fee. i.e. £2,009 buys 2.438€.
#5
Joined: Jun 2011
Location: In the middle of 10million Olive Trees
Posts: 12,053
Re: Thak you Barclays
I think you will find all are optimistic and don't tell you the transaction charge at the beginning, but like the charges by UK banks for international withdrawals should be taken into account.
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