Bank Transfer to Germany

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coshea7

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Anyone have any experience transferring money to Germany?

Can it be done over the internet? What is the best way to go about it?

I need to pay for 2 small items purchased on ebay.
 
IBAN

go to your own bank to get the form and an explanation
 
Or you could avoid all the nonsense associated with banking in Ireland (promulgated by our avariciousness) and bank in (which you are entitled to to as an EU citizen).
 
Thanks for the advice.

My own bank (AIB) will do the transfer via Internet banking for 75c .

This is a lot dearer than Money bookers on small transfers - their cost is 1% up to a max of 50c.

Anyone any experience of using Moneybookers?
 
Dunno about anyone else, but a cost of 50c seems dear compared to 0c. I cannot comprehend why AIB charges 75c to a German account and 28c to an Irish one. That is illegal (unless AIB is adding some additional 'value' to the transaction).<!--EZCODE BR START--><!--EZCODE BR END--><!--EZCODE BR START--><!--EZCODE BR END-->Time to get an account at a bank that competes for your custom (free transactions, full internet banking (no snail-mail requirements), current account interest-bearing, stock-brokerage, etc, etc).
 
I just called AIB 24Hr online and asked to add a german account to my list of acounts to which I transfer funds.

The woman told me point blank it can't be done on 24Hr online, has to be done over the phone with one of them. wtf?

Has ANYBODY transferred funds to a foreign account from within 24Hr online?
 
at present

no, you ring them up and get a human to do it.
 
Re: at present

That sucks. Yet another reason to leave AIB. I'm going to too. Thanks w0dgah.
 
AIB DID say to me

That they are going to enhance their online interface to allow the customer to send (was it ) Swiflink or swiftsomething and IBAN payments through it but not until the first half of next year .

You could always ring em up and hassle them about it because enhancements work at a glacial pace in there.

The IFSRA could be prodded about compliance with Euroland laws and directives by our banks , once one has specific evidence of apparant non-compliance.

For the moment it works on dictation though , same as a BoI account addition.....although the latter will thereafter show in the interface .
 
Re: AIB DID say to me

I just called AIB 24Hr (again) and asked to add the moneybookers (BOI) account to my list so I could fund my shiny new moneybookers account, only to be informed thatacount was not allowed as it is a personal banking service (wtf?) they [AIB] are providing and I would have to speak with one of them each and every time I want to transfer funds internationally. The girl on the phone was very nice but ffs come on AIB. Talk about making it awkward to transfer funds out of the country-anyone would think it's a big conspiracy!
 
Here is the culprit !

David Roberts
Senior Manager
AIB eBusiness & Payments
Bankcentre
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4
Tel: 01-641 1803
Email: david.h.roberts@aib.ie

Ask him what they are up to and when the Online IBAN facility is going live. They told me early next year . IBAN has been supported by the bank since July 2003 so enough is enough.
 
w0dgah wrote -
IBAN has been supported by the bank since July 2003 so enough is enough.
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And he/she/it is correct. Enough is enough. It is time to leave the Irish banks for e-er pastures. BIC/IBAN usage was effective throughout the eurozone on 01 January 2001. But tah be sure, it'll be grand, eh?
 
Re: AIB DID say to me

add the moneybookers (BOI) account to my list so I could fund my shiny new moneybookers account, only to be informed thatacount was not allowed as it is a personal banking service (wtf?)
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I would refer this to [broken link removed] and/or The Competition Authority. It seems anti-competitive to me.

Murph - Please post the account number & sort code for moneybookers and I'll test to see if I can add them as a payee to my NIB online banking.
 
Hi Rainyday,

Here you go;

Account holder: Moneybookers Ltd.
Bank: Bank of Ireland
Account number: 89358542
Sort / Bank Code: 901490
Account currency: EUR

They said on the phone the only way I could xfer funds to that account would be by cheque or bank draft, ba$tard$!!

Funnily enough at the bottom of the moneybookers page with their R.O.I. details (ie the above account), they have a link to AIB, indicating that exactly what I wanted to do could be done online. I guess these guys don't deal with Irish banks too often huh.
 
Did you mean ?<!--EZCODE BR START--><!--EZCODE BR END--><!--EZCODE BR START--><!--EZCODE BR END-->No. That is a US$-centric payment system and AFAIK only accepts US accounts as confirmed bank accounts.
 
No I meant paypath,

Like when your employer pays your salary directly into your account, are there any problems doing that into a Dutch account?
 
NIB let me add this account as a payee. I tried to make a payment of €0.01 into the account as a test, but the minimum payment is €1, and my meanness outweighs my curiousity when it comes to €1.
 
I reckon if you can add the account then it would let you continue. Bloody AIB.

Thanks for that.
 
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