Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer

Re:Saving money on international payments as a remote freela... by sho on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:07PM (#22857030)

So what exactly do you want? The law might be stupid, I agree it's stupid, but it's the bloody law. You wanted TW to break the law just to help our your friend? Then guess what happens? No more TW.

It is literally the first item in the AUP that you're not allowed to use the service for anything unlawful. Of course they monitor that. They did everything right. And I'm sure your "friend" got their money back reasonably promptly after TW completed their review.

Criticism is fine, but taking a company to task for refusing to break the law for you is just silly. They didn't make the rules, and they'd be risking their own existence by breaking them.

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Re:Saving money on international payments as a remote freela... by markdown on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:53PM (#22860558)

> It is literally the first item in the AUP that you're not allowed to use the service for anything unlawful.

Again, kava isn't unlawful. It's a food product. The UK law says it is illegal to import kava for consumption, and illegal to trade in it in the UK.

TransferWise is neither trading in kava, nor importing it into the UK.

All they're doing is moving money from one person to another, neither of whom is in the UK or importing kava into the UK.

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