Is there any risk to giving out banking account numbers? I suppose the account number is on every check you write, so... maybe I'm just being paranoid.
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: OT: European Banking / Ebay Payment Question
Mark:
I sold a camera to a man in Italy a few years ago and I insisted on an international money order. He reluctantly agreed but told me not to hold my breath because of the postal treaty between Italy and the USA.
He had to pay for one at a post office in Italy, they in turn notified the US Post Office in St Louis, who then created a US postal money order to send to me here in New England... THREE months later.
If either one of you can find a bank in Italy with an affiliation to a US bank, then a money order made out to you in US dollars from that bank should be okay. The Bank of America began life in San Francisco as the Bank of Italy... perhaps there's still an affiliation of some sort.
International money orders are different between the US and other countries. I accept them from buyers in Japan, but the US doesn't have the same arrangement with Hong Kong. So from those buyers I receive a money order an affiliated bank.
I don't think that there's any arrangement between the US and UK for international money orders. So far I've only been sent cash from UK buyers.
The only problem which I've experienced with wire transfers is that each USA bank along the route deducts about $5.00 from the amount that you receive. I've lost up to $25.00 per transaction that way.
If you do go with wire transfer, he'll probably have to also get a routing number from you, which your bank will provide to you.
Jim
