Dinkar,
Three options are good:
1. Buy French Francs and send them with registered mail to France
2. Buy American Express Travlers Cheques in Euro (!!) and send them
registered to France. The receiver will be able to cash them cheap or
free of charge. The AMEX TC is to be considered a money order too.
3. Send sterling, and include some extra for the seller to cover the
charge of the currency conversion. Of course he must be willing to
accept sterling.
BidPay is not good, because the money order the seller receives will
be subject to bank charges when cashed.
Good luck,
Frank van LIndert
Utrecht Holland.
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:50:20 +0100, "Dinkar Jhalera"
<dinkar.jhalera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have recently bid an XA + A16 flash eBay. Unfortunately the seller is in
>France and I am in UK. The closing bid was in US$. The seller wants in
>postal orders but here in UK the post office stopped dealing in overseas
>postal orders/money orders some time ago. Any suggestions from list members
>or any experiece of sending money to Europe.
>
>I could send money by BidPay as I asked BidPay and they said they can send
>money to France but it will be in US$ or I could go down to the bank and ask
>for a banker's draft made out in equivalent French Francs but how do you
>work out a fair exchange rate between UK pounds /US $ and French Francs.
>
>Dinkar Jhalera
>
>
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