I'm still trying to figure out a good way for Italy! so far...not come up with anything good PayPal is what I've been doing but I'd really love another solution.Chianti wrote:Not so easy peasy in Italy. I want to know the easiest and cheapest method for Americans and Canadians to pay. Almost all banks in Italy charge huge fees for bank transfers, cheques etc. which are paid into ones account.
Do the clients get charged for using a bank transfer at their end, or is it only the receiving end where the charge occurs?
Chianti
To give you an idea...I'm with /bank of America here in the US; I am charged $35 to send a wire ($15 to recieve!) so...if I were to book something that needed a wire transfer, it would cost me over $100 (!) if I were to send a deposit and two payments...and that's without the currency conversion fees! Way too much for me to ask people to pay since it's a quarter of my weekly rate.
I have yet to have an American willing to give me a plain, old, ordinary, free , US check - alll, so far have insisted on credit card. Wires are sos rare here, that they feel much "safer" that way that they have some sort of record if something were to go wrong (i.e. they show up and there's no house!)
Euro payments are a pain too...because, as you said, Italian banks charge high fees as well
don't really know what else to do though besides use PayPal ans suck up the fees
(which do turn out less for me than wires since I would have to recieve three and make one for the damage deposit)
I'm open to any othere solutions you think of!