Another butt in
You have essentialy three options for payment.
1 send cash
2 Foreign currency bank draft
3 Electronic transfer
If you rule out 1, contact your bank and ask them which method would
be cheapest for you. Going the other way (sending money from OZ to
the US) The bank draft is the cheapest method and not necessarily any
slower. It might be that electronic transfer would be cheaper for
you sending from the US to OZ. Get the other party to check with
their bank to see if there would be any charges their end for
receiving and processing either form of payment.
Ask the sender to use TNT as the freight company, rather than the
CLWB UPS (CLWB? - charge like wounded bull). I once had to pay
roughly AU$120 more when having something shipped from the US to OZ
because the store refused to go out of their way and use TNT instead
of their customary UPS. TNT is not a small outfit in case you were
wondering (multinational). If you visit UPS's web site they have a
calculator to give you an Idea of the freight charge. Unless TNT
have added such a thing to their web site you will have to ring a
toll free number in Houston, if I remember correctly.
There will be no problems with customs charges for the person sending
stuff from OZ. I could not say the same if the goods were going the
other way 8-(
Giles
> Hi Terry and Tracey,
>
> I'm considering purchasing some items from a person living in Australia. He
> advertised them for sale on one of the Australian newsgroups. My question
> is, how much of a problem is it going to be for him to ship to me in
> America. Will I have problems with customs and will the shipping be
> frightfully expensive. I would estimate between three and five pounds.
> Lastly, how would I go about paying him and what is the conversion rate from
> Australian dollars to American dollars. He's not at all knowledgeable about
> this sort of thing. I'm hoping you are. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> John Austin
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