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Re: Sending Cash Abroad
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lugnet.market.theory
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Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:21:15 GMT
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I'm curious - why not just use LarryP's Factoring Service?
richard marchetti wrote:
> Hey:
>
> I live in the United States and have a semi-large deal pending with someone in
> Italy and I have been trying to select the best method of payment. I was
> going to send cash via a registered letter with UPS except that they informed
> me that it was illegal to send cash outside the United States. That this
> should be a illegal comes as a surprise to me as this method of payment
> appears regularly as the recommended method of paying international sellers on
> eBay.
>
> Where can I obtain the best rate on an international check or money order (SF,
> California)? My bank wanted to charge me $75 for such a draft!!! With
> shipping and so on, this deal I have been looking forward to is becoming less
> of a deal all the time...it's turning out that I will be paying an enormous
> premium on these items just to deal with someone internationally.
>
> I was willing to send cash except that I seem to recall people questioning the
> ethics of the Italian Postal Service and I did not before realize that it was
> considered illegal. And it is a largish sum of money being sent in cash too --
> hence my desire to send it via registered UPS.
>
> Any advice will be appreciated. Feel free to write to me privately at
> blueofnoon@aol.com or merely reply here. I guess when we are discussing issues
> of legalities its fair to mention that people might want to be cautious about
> what they post about here.
>
> -- Richard
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