If the US supplier does not already accept PayPal the chances are that
she will not want to open one even if she does get that email. I have
looked at accepting PayPal several times but it is VERY expensive for
the small business person. OK if you have a huge turnover, but if that
were the case she'd be taking Visa or other forms of credit/debit card.
The other alternatives are:
Money order (as you've already discovered about GBP 15)
electronic transfer - you'll need her bank account details and will
probably cost GBP 10-15
Cash - buy US dollars from Thomas Cook or a bank and send by
international signed for post GBP 3.50 plus the regular airmail stamp
Cash - buy US dollars and take a chance with ordinary airmail post
Unless you have an international account you can't write a cheque (on a
GBP account) in anything other than pounds sterling and pence.
If you send her a GBP cheque it will cost her an arm and a leg to
accept it - she will probably refuse it.
The only other alternative is to send GBP cash, and allow a bit extra
to cover conversion costs, which she can exchange at a bank.
Brenda - who will accept GBP cash, personal GBP cheque, international
GBP money order, electronic transfer, any major currency in CASH, but
not PayPal or plastic.
On 3 Dec 2007, at 21:56, Margery Allcock wrote:
Can anyone help, please?
I'm in the UK, and I have a PayPal account linked to my bank account.
No
problem so far.
I need to send $65 to a very small knitting tools supplier in the USA,
who
doesn't have PayPal or credit card facilities. 8-(
If I get a money order from my bank, to send safely by post, the bank
will
charge me £15 (around $30) for the M.O. That's a flat rate, no matter
how
much or how little the M.O. is worth.
If I send the money from my PP account to the supplier's e-mail
address (I
tried it out on DH first <G>) she will receive a message telling her
how to
open a PP account and link it to her bank account in order to get at
the
cash.
So what's the best way for me to get money to her, and to get the
stuff from
her to me?
Can I write a cheque (on Barclays Bank) in dollars? If I write it in
GBP,
won't it cost her a lot in bank charges to get it exchanged?
Advice, please?
Margery.
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