My bank charged me £20!!!!

My bank charges $2.5 or 0.25% of check amount. Whichever is greater.

 

Mine has now started charging £0.25 for incoming electric transfers. With a £10 minimum charge per month of course.

I'm changing banks.

 

Are all british banks that high when it comes to charging fees?

 

Personal accounts tend not to have any transaction fees in the UK for normal day to day stuff. (US currency checks aren't considered day to day, so the fees you see here are normal).

It's a bummer if G gives you £60 and your bank takes £20 (which has happened to me in the past).

Business accounts tend to charge a monthly fee plus transaction charges. Mine keeps adding random charges, so they'll steal more than £300 from me every year - and that's not unusual. I've moving to the Abbey that has free business banking.

 

ahh ic. I don't think I've ever deposited an international check. international money orders, yes. but I didn't think it would make a difference where the check was coming from, other than how long it may take to clear.

 

Why are your cheques in dollars and not £,s ?

 

Because they come from America.

 

Actually I think that google mails its checks out of Ireland.

But they are on an American Bank.

 

Huh - Well there you go.

 

Why not use eft?

I only took the first google cheque because I wanted to see what it looked like. - wasnt worth holding onto though.

 

They send them out of ireland or sweden.
Just change to £,s in your account,there conversion looses you no money.

 

Except for the ridiculous exchange rate they give you.

 

I wished the world had just one currency and one language ... life would be so much easier

 

They did used to have 1 language until man tried to build a ladder to God, so before man hurt themselves God made them have different languages so they couldn't communicate.

(When I say ladder I really mean the tower of Babel lol)

 

I remember that story. Haven't been to Sunday school in quite some time. Amazing how much confusion and miscommunication exists between people on earth. And different languages and banking systems don't help make things any better.

 

And if that wasn't enough, different accents for different regions. There's this fella over here in Ireland thats from Ayr, Scotland and I can't make out a word he says lol.

 

That is what tripped me out about Europe when I was there. Everywhere you go there is such a strong sense of nationality. Like who cares if you're from Wales or Scottland. All Britain to me Even worse on the land ... Germany, Austria etc. You confuse one with the other, they get ready to kill you

 

The dollar seems as close to an international currency as we have. It's funny - the dollar is accepted in lots of different countries where the local currency is unreliable or restricted in some way. That means there are billions of dollars circulating outside the US. The funny thing is they are just bits of paper, but the US sells them for $1 each. Big money spinner for them.

 

Is the dollar international currency ?
What i mean by that is,if there is say a war in some country I always thought that with us dollars you could buy anything.

 

I'm glad you said Wales and not England