26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
10:27 a.m.
At 02:54 AM 11/26/04 -0500, you wrote:
International
What problems
are there with the "international postal money order"?
Can't you still get those at the local USPS office?
The only International money orders the US Post office will cash are their
own and Canadian post. I know because I took a Japanese Postal Money order once and the US Post wouldn't have
anything to do with it. It
was
legitimate but I ended up having to deposit it to cash
it. I do take
Canadian
Postal Money Orders now.
I've recieved a lot of Canadian money orders and a few other non-US
ones. As long as they're drawn on a US bank and in US dollars then they
should take them. However the tellers in my bank are rather stupid and they
frequently tell me that they can't take them. However when I argue with
them and MAKE them go find a supervisor they find that they CAN take them.
I have used the interbank for international money transfer once and it
worked
easily. I seem to remember that I had my credit union
generate a transaction
number along with the interbank number that I sent to the person purchasing
the item. A couple of days later the money showed up in my Credit Union
Account.
However it cost me $10 for the transaction on my side,
which I had the
customer pay, after all he wanted to pay by wire transfer.
Nowadays I take Western Union Wire transfers, Western Union International
Money Orders, Bidpay, Paypal or US dollars (Cash) for international
purchases.
I take all of the above except PP. I refuse to disclose my banking info
them AND I've heard too many horror stories about them rescinding payments
MONTHS later for NO reason. If any of you PP fans want to argue with me
about this I'll be happy to referr you to reputable people that this has
happened to. It seems like people are forever e-mailing me and harranging
me to accept PP. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!
I do not take Certified or Bank Checks, especially for amounts greater than
the purchase.
Yeah, I've heard about that little scam!
And I do not ship until I am certain I have payment.
I take personal checks from people that I've dealt with previously and
so far I've never had a problem. If I do, well that's what the police and
jails are for! And it that doesn't work, I have my own methods of dealing
with crooks and thieves!
Lately, in posting a HP110 outfit on the HP Museum's for sale site I
received
three fraudulent offers, and one serious one. Two of
the offers were to
purchase it with a certified check for a set amount, much more than the
item and
then have me forward the HP110 and the extra money on
to them. The third
fraudulent offer was a blatant offer to let me pad the invoice with other
goods,
name
my own price, and get paid by a certified check.
I was very disappointed to see that amount of scamming on the bulletin
board.
All were internationally based scams and easy to
recognize, though.
I suspect that's what the >>international<< bidders that wanted my
banking info were up to. I've refused to give that out and pointed out that
they could pay by one of the methods that you listed above and I never
heard from them again.
Joe
Paxton
Astoria, Oregon
USA