Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by kilburn on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:40PM (#16033284)

Transfers can be charged, and often are even within the same country. In Spain it is common to have "up to n monthly transfers for free, then you get charged x%".

Also, I've received wrong payments on a German account from French people many times, and they claim it's because their bank charges the transaction and I receive the sent amount minus fees, with no possibilities for them to specify otherwise (that's happened with dozens of different clients, so I'm very inclined to believe them).

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by distances on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:47PM (#16033309)

> bank charges the transaction and I receive the sent amount minus fees

Sounds like horrible UX -- how would people be able to pay their bills correctly if the sent value doesn't equal the received value?

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by kilburn on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:57PM (#16033569)

It is really terrible. We currently solve it by charging them the missing amount via credit card when this happens.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by raverbashing on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:27AM (#16034278)

I agree

Some banks allow you to specify it it's the receiver, the sender or if the fee should be split

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by nicolas_t on Friday December 29, 2017 @08:59PM (#16033357)

At least both of my banks in France don't charge me anything when doing wire transfer to other European countries. So, I'm not sure how prevalent that is.

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