Sending Euros to Ireland

[Bear]

Hi - saw someone else asking about sending money to her sister a few threads down - not quite the same here. I need to send a holiday deposit to someone in Ireland. Paypal isn't appropriate unfortunately.

In order to transfer 100 Euros electronically, my bank want to charge me £25 (about 30%!). I could get a draft for £15 and send it through the post (possibly risky) but the recipient may get charged for lodging that.

Even the Ulster Bank in Belfast would charge those amounts to transfer to an Ulster Bank account in the Republic.

I could send a sterling cheque but the recipient will get hit for costs big time when lodging that.

And then we'll have to pay all over again when the balance is due....maybe we'll have joined the Euro by then...

Anyone got any ideas around this? TIA

could you not do it on a credit card? that way you only get hit on fx charges

nope- it's effectively to a private individual

Cash?

Can the person not just open a paypal account and you could pay into that?

just get 1-- euro note form the post office and send that?

Hi

I work in fin sers. Can confirm that £25 wd be standard charge whether it was ?100 or ?10000. Only way to avoid is to open a currency account and transfer the money yourself, which is only worth doing if you deal lots in currency. Or see if they will take euro travellers cheques which you can buy in any bank or post office. Otherwise sorry but you have to pay.

thanks - am grateful for your help