Tip: International Wire Transfer

Not a canoe, just a satisfied customer.

If anybody ever needs to transfer money internationally, I'd highly recommend you check out Transferwise. I use my Credit Union for just about everything, and I thought the $50 fee they were charging per transfer was reasonable, but it turns out Banks and Credit Unions set their own exchange rate, to their benefit of course.

For example, yesterday my CU said the Euro to USD rate was 1.17 Dollars per Euro - which Google said was too high. Transferwise charged a much lower fee and gave me the actual rate - 1.13.

My funds got where they needed to go in less than 24 hours. Very happy.

Unfortunately it wasn't to fund a Citroen.

Does this require a smartphone app or can it be done through their website? This could be useful to my mom's real estate business, but she's barely computer literate and still uses a Blackberry, and this situation is common in the real estate business on both the vendor and customer side.

Now I have a better method of getting my funds to that disposed Nigerian prince.

I did it through the website.

the cheapest way to transfer money internationally is to go to Wal Mart... well, it's the cheapest as long as you are sending the money to Mexico..