tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post4813693768068120966..comments2024-01-29T03:04:24.219+11:00Comments on Flinders Family Freer: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-84434935007815158632011-11-13T08:23:09.798+11:002011-11-13T08:23:09.798+11:00Dave,
Check the Internet for Asian and European b...Dave,<br /><br />Check the Internet for Asian and European banks. You will find quite a few who provide multi-currency accounts, with no fees and worldwide Visa or MasterCard debit card access. With Internet access to view your accounts.<br />They all involve a risk factor. Those I've known who used them have taken an exchange rate hit on occasion - such as the Asian banking blowout early last decade.<br />The advantage explained to me is that, being international building and computing contractors, their family in Australia always has access to the funds regardless of where the contractor might be working today, and they can use the card as if it was local, in local currency or US$ wherever they find themselves that day.<br />I'm not sure, but I think American Express has a similar system. Yes, an annual card fee, but last I saw it was $50 per year, not per month.<br /><br />regards<br /><br />Ianianrclark99https://www.blogger.com/profile/17816816848295728149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-58640421877740426782011-11-12T20:06:44.693+11:002011-11-12T20:06:44.693+11:00antikva - Amazon do it their way, you fit into it....antikva - Amazon do it their way, you fit into it. They don't pay via paypal. I do use that solution with a couple of minor payments anyway.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-28605601474894872392011-11-12T20:04:18.786+11:002011-11-12T20:04:18.786+11:00Yes, Francis, but I can only do that when I next g...Yes, Francis, but I can only do that when I next go to US. Which I will do. Stuff the local bank.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-65249311520762831592011-11-12T20:00:09.040+11:002011-11-12T20:00:09.040+11:00Could you get paid via a paypal account in USD and...Could you get paid via a paypal account in USD and then transfer it over to your Aus one when you need it? You'd have to check the fees/conversion rates etc but that might be an easier solution and cheaper than an Aussie bank.antikvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11819050587443158100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-26525331408744800902011-11-12T19:18:06.073+11:002011-11-12T19:18:06.073+11:00I'm just musing out loud here but I'm wond...I'm just musing out loud here but I'm wondering whether you couldn't open a US bank account with a US bank and get a debit card that would work to pay for things in Oz. Now yes you'd be giving various *nkers a cut everytime you made a payment using it but you'd be getting the money in immediately and if there were ever stuff you wanted to buy that was from the US you could probably pay for that using the US$ account.<br /><br />Of course this idiotic anti-terrorist/drugs war thing might make opening an account impossible unless you show up in person. Not sure about that.Francis Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239588633595604498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-301791108611372665.post-11744498000405345052011-11-11T23:30:18.351+11:002011-11-11T23:30:18.351+11:00always good to reinvent oneselfalways good to reinvent oneselfbirenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11995840418966696101noreply@blogger.com