"Brenda Joyce" <bjoyce@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > Hello > > I live in New Zealand but find I need to send money to UK about 6 times > per year for family history purposes eg buying books. Many do not accept > payment by credit card. Fees for a bankers draft are usually more than > the value of the money to be sent. For a UK bank account Barclays charge > 40 GDP pa + transaction charges. Can any of you suggest a safe but more > realistically priced way to send money to the UK? Hopefully. Brenda > How about Pay Pal? Its charged to your credit card but many places online accept this as a means of payment. However you might like to read this before signing up http://www.paypalsucks.com/ -- Kind Regards Eddie Lord Researching: LORD; REEVES; SELDEN; FREWEN

Regarding the question and comment below, I've used PayPal to pay or be paid on Ebay and to transfer money to friends abroad. I've had no problem with it and no-one I know has had problems. However, like general banking, there are a few people who do encounter problems and these problems get heavily publicised making out that the bank, Paypal etc. is untrustworthy. It's a tiny percentage and, like all things in life, nothing is 100% safe. John "Brenda Joyce" <bjoyce@xtra.co.nz> wrote: > Hello > > I live in New Zealand but find I need to send money to UK about 6 times > per year for family history purposes eg buying books. Many do not accept > payment by credit card. Fees for a bankers draft are usually more than > the value of the money to be sent. For a UK bank account Barclays charge > 40 GDP pa + transaction charges. Can any of you suggest a safe but more > realistically priced way to send money to the UK? Hopefully. Brenda > How about Pay Pal? Its charged to your credit card but many places online accept this as a means of payment. However you might like to read this before signing up http://www.paypalsucks.com/