Subject: Re: Wiring money to yourself during travel...

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Subject: Re: Wiring money to yourself during travel...

Posted on: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 03:16:27 +0000 (UTC)

Brett Aires wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if you can wire money to yourself, saying using Western
> Union or something like that?
>
> Reason being, I had the unfortunate situation many years ago of having my
> ATM card eaten up while in Europe - and I had not had a chance to withdraw
> the cash spending money for the 3 days I was going to be there! So you can
> imagine my nightmare.
>
> It was very very difficult to eventually get my bank to wire the money from
> my account + it took over 2 days to get it.
>
> I had a credit card but what I needed was Cash.

So you take a cash advance on your credit card. That's just about as
easy.

And it's cheaper than Western Union.

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