waxwabbit

Hi there people.....

I am wondering how you converted your UK money into US?

Ive come across a site xe.com who look good and was wondering if anyone had heard of them and if they were reputable?

What value did u get etc, did it run smoothly?

Our bank account in England is with Smile.co.uk (co-op)

Cheers

Leeeeeee

cbone

Hi Lee

I have just been using Barlacys telephone banking to send TT's. It seems to work well. If you're trasnferring over 25k GBP you will usually get the commercial rate, as oppossed to the tourist rate.

Saying that the GBP is very strong at the moment, so I have been using my Barclaycard to buy things here, and then pay online using my UK funds. At least this way I do not incurr a transfer fee and Barclaycard use the rate for the day of the transaction

Hope this helps
Chris

BritGuyTN

I've used XE.com several times - there are NO charges for transfering money - they make their cash on the bid offer spread between but and sell rates

i transfer money from my Uk account to my US gfriends bank of america account - using the free EFT transfer

not amazingly quick but I got a rate of 1.62 last week

Duncs

Are Xe.com ok then? How much did you trade approximately? how much did your uk bank charge you to wire money?

regards,

Duncan

BritGuyTN

i have used xe 4 times transferring between $2500 and $120!

using my online bank accoun there is no charge to wire xe money (they have a uk bank account)

great rate too

i like them

hope this helps