Dear uk.finance
I was browsing uk.finance and found that Chris Green was asking for a good value way of sending small payments from the UK to France in euros.
The best deal I've found, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is the Eurogiro payment service offered by A&L Girobank. The only problem is that I am unsure whether it is still possible to open an A&L Girobank (the accounts with the 9 digit a/c numbers xx.xxx.xxxx) account
Eurogiro is a consortium offering crossboarder payments in Europe:
If you are sending the funds to somebody you know in France on a regular basis, then it maybe worth opening a French post office account.
If nothing has changed, the French post only charge EUR2,-- for receiving inward Eurogiro payment.
I hope this helps...
A. Hix
From: snipped-for-privacy@isbd.co.uk ( snipped-for-privacy@isbd.co.uk) Subject: Cheapest way to send small Euro amounts to France? View this article only Newsgroups: uk.finance Date: 2004-01-12 04:22:13 PST
Over the years I've needed to send small amount of Francs/Euros to France for various reasons, mostly deposits for rent and things like that. The amounts range from, say, 10 to 200 Euros.
Once upon a time it was easy and relatively cheap using Eurocheques (they're nothing to do with Euros) but they were phased out a couple of years ago.
Now the alternatives seem to be:- Send the cash, if just five or ten Euros I take the risk, for more I send it registered. Works OK but it's a bit of a hassle and it does cost a bit (if registered).
Send travellers cheques, reasonably secure and not too expensive but an absolute pain in the backside if for any reason the cheques aren't cashed. Travellers cheques are *very* difficult to cash oneself if they have been made out to someone else even if they were your cheques originally.
A bank transfer of some sort, I've yet to find one I can do electronically and they all cost ten pounds or more.
Has anyone any better ideas? What I'd really like is to open a bank account in France so I can write cheques in Euros from a French bank but that seems pretty difficult too. (I know about CA's Britline, last time I looked at that it was pretty expensive).