General Money Currency News
Western Union Localized Domains
It’s interesting how a company like Western Union is dealing with overseas visitors.
When visiting the Western Union domain (westernunion.com) from a location outside of the US the visitor is redirected to a localized domain name (for instance westernunion.com.au) instead of the US .com website.
This happens quite regularly in other businesses however WU don’t allow the choice to go back to the US facing website, they only allow the visitor to see their local version of the site without any other International options.
Generally if you’re from another location and are travelling this would be a particularly annoying experience as you’re not going to see the version of the website that you’re used to, you’d only be able to see the money transfer services they have available for the country that you’re visiting their site from at the moment.
Hopefully they update this at some point and allow non-US visitors to get to westernunion.com as well.
Transferring your money into gold
I’ve just seen an advertisement suggesting to go to XForex.com as a way for transferring your money into gold due to the unstable price of other investments that are available.
The site is purely an online forex trading site so it’s interesting to see that they’re promoting the purchase of gold directly. When you go to their homepage, there isn’t anything mentioned about gold transfers neither is there anything reassuring you that they are in fact a gold trader.
If you do a search for buying gold online you end up with bullionvault.com and kitco.com as the first two results as they’re companies where you can buy gold directly.
Generally, if you’re interested in transferring your money into gold you may be better off just purchasing it directly.
Discussions on MoneyGram
After the previous post about a MoneyGram Review I had been reading I thought it would be worth looking through another site that discusses MoneyGram in depth and allows reviews of its money transfer service.
Reviewcentre.com has a MoneyGram page that currently gives the transfer service a score of 2.6 out of 5 stars from 11 reviews. The site allows reviewing by stars in different sub-categories.
Here is how MoneyGram was rated;
Wire Transfer Methods
It’s interesting to have a read through the Wikipedia entry for Wire Transfer as it shows up what the obvious methods of a wire transfer are although it does look like the wiki article has more than a little bit of spam in it, probably from interested people who want others to know about their own wire transfer methods or ways of using their product to transfer money online.
OMT Launches
Welcome to the new Online Money Transfer site www.online-money-transfer.com. Here you’ll find a growing list of useful places where you can transfer money online at good currency exchange rates.