Stay away from Remit2home

[radsr2002 0]

Caution using Remit2Home.com for money transfers!!!!

First I want to mention, this is not slander. Slander is making false statements or false claims about some person or business. This is all accurate and true.

My Fiancée lives in the Philippines and I live in America. I often send her money for some support, or to build up some savings for when I arrive there to live.

I have used a few of the money transfer companies available on the internet, which I will not mention except Remit2Home.

From the comments I will leave, you will have a good hint who they are. All work fine except little irritations, fight over fees and such EXCEPT Remit2Home.com

At first I had used a company that has been around for many years. They first started their business sending telegrams. I stopped using them since there fees were too high.

I then found a company that would send my fiancée an ATM debit card and all my money would be deposited into her account. The fees were less, but she would be charged a fee every month and each time she used her card. One day I get a notice that there is a problem with the state of Florida and they will not allow money send from here. I do not know if the problem was resolved yet since.

I then switched to another company. The new company worked great! I could send money from a credit card, a PayPal account or directly from my bank account. Then my fiancée could get it delivered to her home, pick up at a bank, or deposited directly into her personal bank account. I had never had any problems with them. For a hint; zoom to where “X” marks the spot is where I prefer to use.

Then Remit2Home started flooding the internet with their ads. They said their fee was less so I decided to try them out.

I signed up, and proceeded to send Elena some money. They did their test of my account sending me a small amount then taking it back. I then got a phone call from them wanting to know everything about me except maybe my blood type. One thing they did ask was the test transfer amount to prove I was the account holder. This all happened within 2 days after I signed up. Then we waited a week, nothing. Then 2 weeks, still nothing. They advertise 24/7 support. WHERE? Their phones are never answered and their Chat Live crashes or never works.

Oh, one time they answered the phone, and the girl said she would contact someone in the customer service department and have someone return my call. NEVER HAPPENED. I would send emails and 2 days later I would get a promise they are investigating. 2 days ago, I get an email saying the money has been deposited. Well, my fiancée went to her bank and NO, NOTHING THERE. Also now all I get is their <auto> response email, but nothing more. It has been ONE MONTH and no money. My only thanks to GOD it was not my the last of my money and it was not needed for an emergency.

I have noticed they do not advertise on Goggle anymore and I am wondering if they are out of business

I do not know if anyone else has used Remit2Home, and/or if it worked, but I think you should use this as a warning and use some other service.

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I did not write the above part of this. But in my case the same thing has been exact.

It is going on 2 months and they still have not delivered the money to my wifes family.

No 1 answers the phone. And emails are automated responces saying we will look into it and get back with you in 24 to 48 WORKING hours.

Money has been withdrawn from the account, but, not delivered.

It would be nice if admins made this a sticky for a while.

People here have enough to deal with without getting shafted trying to sent money home to their loved ones.

[Jasman0717 9]

I opened up a savings account at my credit union and had it linked to my checking/savings account so I could transfer money to it. I then gave Claudeth the ATM card. She was able to withdraw money from BPI with no problems and could withdraw up to 15,000 pesos per transaction. We are charged for the withdrawl but it is only $1.50. That is much better than any money transfer companies and the conversion rate is also better. Her family now have the card and we give them money each month.

[alexandra8886 0]

check their site..

http://www.timesofmoney.com/remittance/jsp/r2h_about.jsp

its an indian group..seems no affiliation with any phils bank...

i just hope its not the amount is not that much...

anyway ,i check their homepage & they have referral bonus..what if tell them that you will start with a bad campaign for them ...

bad me...

[edp333 9]

I saw some ads for remit2home. It appears they are trying to use remithome's good name. I hope you recover your money.

[chuck_n_rose 0]

xoom.com is pretty good because you can transfer directly to most banks in the philippines.

[hotairguy 0]

I have a friend who had plenty of trouble using REMIT2HOME!

Please don't confuse this awful service with REMITHOME.COM.

They are two completely different companies and I have been using REMITHOME.COM for almost two years and very happy with their service.

[vbtbmrt 2]

well this is just to move this back to main page so the word gets out

[Derrel & Lai 0]

Here is my method of transfer and cell phone load:

I got a joint account with my fiance using only a photo of her passport. I opened this account in the US with Washington Mutual. I then got an MasterCard debit card in her name, and forwarded to her. I asked Washington Mutual to note that the account would be used in the PH for approximately six months. Their ATM withdrawal fees are only 1% and they give a good bank exchange rate, 10,000 php costs only 100 php.

At www.aryty.com you can send cell phone load to Globe, Sun and Smart. Their rates are quite comparable to buying in PH. I'd love to get some free load for refering you, but they do a good job, even if I don't get a referal

[radsr2002 0]

bump again

people here need to know

[vbtbmrt 2]

bump for people need to know

[DJ+Ten 0]

Here is my method of transfer and cell phone load:

I got a joint account with my fiance using only a photo of her passport. I opened this account in the US with Washington Mutual. I then got an MasterCard debit card in her name, and forwarded to her. I asked Washington Mutual to note that the account would be used in the PH for approximately six months. Their ATM withdrawal fees are only 1% and they give a good bank exchange rate, 10,000 php costs only 100 php.

At www.aryty.com you can send cell phone load to Globe, Sun and Smart. Their rates are quite comparable to buying in PH. I'd love to get some free load for refering you, but they do a good job, even if I don't get a referal

WaMu sounds pretty good. I'm in Missouri and I've had good luck with www.PNBRCI.com in Dallas. I thought there was a problem with an online remit where her bank would call her when the money arrived...but no call. Her local branch finally located the funds in a seldom used computer page. Currently trying their online remit direct from my savings acct to her Dollar Savings or PhP ATM acct. DJ

[remithome 0]

Remithome vs. Remit2Home

We at remithome ( http://www.remithome.com ) have been following your discussion of Remit2Home and are happy that those posting on visajourney.com realize that remithome is NOT the same as Remit2Home.

Remithome Corporation is a U.S. to Philippines online remittance service based in Oakland, California, and has been providing remittance services since 2004.

Remit2Home, on the other hand, is not even a company name. Remit2Home.com is a domain name owned by an Indian company called TimesofMoney Ltd., which has only recently been used to market its services.

Since we had concerns about customer confusion caused by TimesofMoney using a variation of our registered REMITHOME trademark (registered both in the U.S. and the Philippines), we filed a complaint with the National Arbitration Forum, which provides dispute resolution services for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization responsible for overseeing the use of domain names worldwide.

A panel of the National Arbitration Forum reviewed the evidence and found (1) that the domain names remit2home.com and remit2home1.com are confusingly similar to remithome Corporation’s registered REMITHOME trademark, (2) that TimesofMoney lacks rights and legitimate interests in the two domain names, and (3) that these domain names were registered and used by TimesofMoney in bad faith.

On February 21, 2008, the panel ordered that the domain names remit2home.com and remit2home1.com be transferred from TimesofMoney Ltd. to remithome Corporation.

To view remithome’s press release summarizing the panel’s decision, please go to

http://www.remithome.com/remit2home-domain-name-decision.htm

To read the full text of the National Arbitration Forum decision, you can follow the link below:

http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1124302.htm

We welcome the National Arbitration Forum’s affirmation of our trademark. Remithome has spent years building its reputation for convenience, reliability, service, and value. And we are committed to maintaining the integrity of our trademark and brand.

We appreciate the opportunity to provide this news on visajourney.com.

Remithome Corporation

[EricC 0]

[chuck_n_rose 0]

You could of atleast offered some type of incentive to use your service to VJ'ers if your just use a post for a marketing ploy of your company. I use xoom.com and have no problems. Money transfers in Rose's bank account in 2 days for here to use.

Come on dude, get real with your post, give us something free, that's what we really want.

[rjp44 1]

Wi've had good luck with PNB web remittance. They willl transfer to other banks, but we opened an account with them and it's easy to transfer funds from my US bank account for reasonable fees and under 1 peso per dollar different than official exchange rate.