Hi, if you have a pay-pal account you can send the money to friends pay-pal account. There will be only a small fee on the German end. That's what I do and it works great. Yvonne in California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Lindmeyer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:28 AM Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Sending Money Internationally >I owe a good friend in Germany money for some items he purchased for me. I >have been trying to find an economical way to send him the money I owe him. >I checked with my local bank first but they want a $50 fee to transfer >money to a bank account in Germany. Seems pretty high to me. Wal Mart >offers a money transfer option but their Money Gram in not available in >Nuremberg. I have searched in vein for an international check or money >order but I have not been able to find anything. There are some web sites >that offer this service but I am not sure if I can trust them. > > Any ideas? > > Louis > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >