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This is incredibly helpful. Wire transfers at big banks (like Chase) cost around $20 per transfer. With Dwolla, it's 25 cents.
by gee_totes 13y ago
This is incredibly helpful. Wire transfers at big banks (like Chase) cost around $20 per transfer. With Dwolla, it's 25 cents.
- noxryan 13y agoI believe the initialing bank will still hit the account holder with a fee to wire transfer to Dwolla.
- continuations 13y agoI can transfer money from my bank account to my paypal account with no fee. Why is there a fee to transfer money to Dwolla then?
- jeffasinger 13y agoIt's free via ACH which Dwolla offers, however if you choose to use a wire transfer, then you have to pay whatever rate your bank charges.
- noxryan 13y agoThat is considered an ACH transfer, which is the same way that you normally fund your Dwolla account. A wire transfer allows larger amounts and is much quicker but usually has significant fees attached to it. ( As well as some other differences) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Clearing_House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_transfer
- continuations 13y agoSo can I transfer money into my Dwolla account with ACH, and then wire transfer that money to someone's bank account (possibly oversea)? That way the whole process would be free.
- noxryan 13y ago"Dwolla now supports wire transfers for deposits." It looks like wire transfer is only supported for depositing money into Dwolla.
- jeffasinger 13y agoI think the person initiating the wire transfer would still get charged their normal fee, and dwolla doesn't support wire transfers out yet, this only saves the fee to receive wire transfers in the case that you don't care about speed (Dwolla is slow to your bank account for most people).