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Why do money transfer services have limits? Is it government telling me I can't send my money where I want, or are the businesses just saying no. Are there magic faeries in the internet tubes playing mischief? Have my accounts been frozen for patriotic reasons? Why is it so hard to find someone willing to take any more of my money?
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Wells Fargo: Yah, we can send your money. Just visit your local branch and sign up... on the other side of the world. And then we'll give you a really ****ty exchange rate. But we'll never see any of that money because you'll never be able to sign up for our service ... MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Western Union: Transaction accepted. Oh wait, nevermind. Don't ask why, there is no reason.
Xoom: Yah, you've sent lots of money through our service, you've never had any problems with funding, but we don't want to take any more of your money for X amount of time. (In the most absurd situation, that time being 2 hours when I misremembered the time of day when I sent a transfer 30 days before.) Yes, you have lots of money to send, but we can't increase your sending limit for reasons which we will never divulge. But we'll ask you to apply to increase your sending limit over and over and over again anyways.
LBC: UTAH SUCKS
Lucky Money: UTAH SUCKS
... countless other shady Filipino remittance services: UTAH SUCKS
Ria: Click this button to finalize ... oh wait! Psych! You can't finalize so we'll just forward you to the front page of the site like nothing even happened. No error. No warning that doing it again will result in the exact same complete waste of time.
Paypal: You can send your money over to a PH account, but only if you don't want to be able to be able to get it to your bank account in PH, ever. And after we take a few percent in fees. And after we force you to exchange to PHP with the ****tiest exchange rate on the planet (which won't be divulged to you before you send but may be viewable someplace on the website if you can find it).
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So anyone know of a decent service?
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Wells Fargo: Yah, we can send your money. Just visit your local branch and sign up... on the other side of the world. And then we'll give you a really ****ty exchange rate. But we'll never see any of that money because you'll never be able to sign up for our service ... MUAHAHAHAHAHA
Western Union: Transaction accepted. Oh wait, nevermind. Don't ask why, there is no reason.
Xoom: Yah, you've sent lots of money through our service, you've never had any problems with funding, but we don't want to take any more of your money for X amount of time. (In the most absurd situation, that time being 2 hours when I misremembered the time of day when I sent a transfer 30 days before.) Yes, you have lots of money to send, but we can't increase your sending limit for reasons which we will never divulge. But we'll ask you to apply to increase your sending limit over and over and over again anyways.
LBC: UTAH SUCKS
Lucky Money: UTAH SUCKS
... countless other shady Filipino remittance services: UTAH SUCKS
Ria: Click this button to finalize ... oh wait! Psych! You can't finalize so we'll just forward you to the front page of the site like nothing even happened. No error. No warning that doing it again will result in the exact same complete waste of time.
Paypal: You can send your money over to a PH account, but only if you don't want to be able to be able to get it to your bank account in PH, ever. And after we take a few percent in fees. And after we force you to exchange to PHP with the ****tiest exchange rate on the planet (which won't be divulged to you before you send but may be viewable someplace on the website if you can find it).
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So anyone know of a decent service?
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