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This is 10000% bullshit. Everyone on here says "oh yeah, it's easy to send a wire anywhere in the world", but as someone who's actually spent decades living abr
by centimeter 6y ago
This is 10000% bullshit. Everyone on here says "oh yeah, it's easy to send a wire anywhere in the world", but as someone who's actually spent decades living abroad as a US citizen, this couldn't be further from the truth. International banking never works the way it's supposed to. Shit always inexplicably gets delayed, or canceled, or fails for some obscure reason that requires spending 9 hours on the phone with clueless customer support monkeys.
There have actually been a few times where non of my bank cards (chase, bofa, credit union) work for cash withdrawal and I've used a Bitcoin ATM to get cash until I could get something figured out.
- notyourday 6y ago> Everyone on here says "oh yeah, it's easy to send a wire anywhere in the world", but as someone who's actually spent decades living abroad as a US citizen, this couldn't be further from the truth. That's simply not the case as someone who authorizes or validates wire transfers for the companies would be able to confirm. > There have actually been a few times where non of my bank cards (chase, bofa, credit union) work for cash withdrawal and I've used a Bitcoin ATM to get cash until I could get something figured out. There have been several orders of magnitude more cases where standard bank cards worked in the ATMs and bitcoin ATMs did not.
- centimeter 6y agoI’m not a company, I’m a person. International wires probably work better if you have accountants to hammer out the bullshit. I’ve never had a Bitcoin ATM fail, but I’ve had normal ATMs fail all the time even in first world countries like Japan, HK, Singapore.