Bank Charges

[suec]

We have just had a bit of a shock. We transferred money over to our Garanti account in Turkey to pay part payment on our villa. We were charged £30.00 From this side and 3 weeks later just received a charge from Garanti Bank for £49.00 for handling the money. We have to pay our final payment in a couple of weeks does any one know of a cheaper way of transferring our money. Would you recommend changing accounts if so to which one. We will be moving permanently in January and will be having my husbands pension transferred every month but we are a little surprised at the costs. Any help would be gratefully received.  

[pookie]

    We pay £25.00 to transfer from Abbey, each transaction.  But as yet haven't received a fee from the otherside to receive it !  -  How bizzare !

[Diverbaz 1]

UK HSBC account and a Turkish HSBC account. £10 per transfer no matter what amount.

Baz

[farry]

quote:Originally posted by Diverbaz 1

UK HSBC account and a Turkish HSBC account. £10 per transfer no matter what amount.

Baz

With their Premier account have been told no transfer fee.  

[Liz 101]

From Nationwide to Finans, approx £40 regardless of amount being transferred - a flat fee of £20 this end & a further £20ish from Finans

[lindacarl]

Set up a Nationwide account quickly. Get a debit & credit card & open up an esavings internet account. Have husbands pension paid into esavings or current account. Pull it out of any ATM using a debit card & transfer any balances online, pay credit card bills etc.

With Nationwide there are NO charges - hidden or otherwise for cash using debit card & you get around the mid bank rate for TL - much better than elsewhere. Use the credit card for purchases ONLY - same great exchange rate & no charges if you pay it off in full using esavings to flexaccount & then to credit card. Sounds complicated BUT it's dead easy once you have done it once.

HSBC may say there are no charges BUT read MSE - Moneysavingsexpert.com for the TRUE cost of using - including dismal exchange rates.

[Diverbaz 1]

Having used HSBC I think I know the TRUE cost, not hearsay from a web site. The Premier account is free to transfer monies, but you have to meet certain criteria, such as earnings of £75,000 a year or similar such things. I don't have a premier account and pay the £10 per transfer. 4 Transfers a year, £40, not that bad considering.

Baz

[kenkay]

In all, over two payments, we paid about £62K to Garanti, costing us £21 twice with RBS. However we paid directly to our builders account and incurred no charges from Garanti even though we were account holders there. There is always the possibility that the builder had included his charges in our price.
Ken

[bewva]

Same thing happened to us a few years ago, on one transaction we transfered from Barclays to Garanti and it cost us about £25. The next transfer we ticked the wrong box on the transfer form & paid about £18 to Barclays and about £30 to Garanti.
We were told there were 3 payment options on the form 1. Pay to UK bank only. 2. Pay reduced UK bank & Turkish bank. 3. Pay Turkish bank fee only.
First and last transfers we opted for pay uk bank only. Second time we ticked pay reduced fee in both banks.

Worst thing of all was wife worked for Barclays.

[flying scotsman]

we tranfered money from our rbs account to our garanti account the first time got charged by both banks the second time we ticked the box in the rbs form that we would pay all charges and it worked out much cheaper . hope thats a help