does anyone here sending western union online????

[tallcoolone 102]

If you open up a Wells Fargo acct in USA, you can wire money overnight to a PI Bank or to a PI Bank Account and it only cost $5.

After you do it the first time in person at the bank, then after that you can call into the bank and they will handle it from there.

[rlogan 2,036]

I send my wife money every two weeks and I use www.remithome.com. These guys are fantastic and very professional. The fee is 8 dollars for each transactions u to $2,500 dollars. You can have it delivered door to door, have it scheduled to be picked up at a bank or just deposited into their bank account. They can even set up reoccuring transactions for you. I really like these guys and have been using them for the last year and a half. Most western union pick up is at a pawn shop and its not very safe.

I also have another vendor you can use as well. Try WWW.XOOM.COM. These guys only charge 3 to 5 dollars a transaction but you get less favorable exchange rate. They have the same service as the remithome.

I find that these two vendors are best for sending cash to the philippines and very reliable.

Interesting. Because there is a remit2home (close to the same spelling) that is extremely unprofessional and was a nightmare of unpublished secret rules. They claim you can send up to $500 at a time. But there are secret weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, and half-year maximums. The way you find out is by having your transaction fail and find yourself or your family on the streetcorner without money. Then you ask if there are any more limits, and they lie to you and say no, but then they invent another one - and make you go through this stupid "credit committee" even though you have $80,000.00 cash sitting in the bank available to transfer.

I did two successful transactions with them and had nothing but trouble from there on so I quit.

Beware remit2home.

We use BPI express remittance because we bank with BPI. It's $7 per transaction.

[CATHYlovesRICK 2]

I just sent $500 to Milagros for final expenses before she leaves in 3 weeks.. No problems at all, westernunion.com is fast & easy.. :thumbs:

I TOTALLY AGREE.. I just hate the extra fees online when my fiance is sending money to us..Yeah its TRUE compare to other money transfers its a bit high charge

My fiance both have used online and in person and he is happy with their service!

[CATHYlovesRICK 2]

I just sent $500 to Milagros for final expenses before she leaves in 3 weeks.. No problems at all, westernunion.com is fast & easy.. :thumbs:

I TOTALLY AGREE.. I just hate the extra fees online when my fiance is sending money to us..Yeah its TRUE compare to other money transfers its a bit high charge

My fiance both have used online and in person and he is happy with their service!

[070809 0]

We use xoom.com but had problems for a couple of months coz J used it when he was here and needed some extra cash since he dropped his wallet with credit card/debit card on a cab when we were going to MOA. The transfer went through but i guess when they caught that the IP address was from the Philippines they cancelled ALL other transactions. They told us via email that they don't do intracountry transfer. So it was all fixed just recently, he was asked to scan and email back his ID and a bill on his US address. All good! The thing about xoom is that I can get it directly from my bank the next day and only costs J around $4 to send any money to me.

[Richard90027 1]

I tried it once but my bank put a hold on my card until I called them, The said western is a red flag to them because of fraud.

[rlogan 2,036]

Good to talk about the security nightmares of Western Union.

Western Union has a computer program that flags security concerns. I knew a fellow who made one little mistake of trying to send money to himself online while he was in the Philippines.

It took him over two years to get the security people to remove the block from his online transactions. He made countless phone calls and wrote letters to some security division they have.

He could still do phone transactions, but they would call him back and make him do more extensive stuff on the phone to send the money.