I was at a Sheetz gas station and a woman approached me. She said she was in the military and trying to get back to base. Someone stole her purse. She had a check but they would not cash locally; it was good. Would I cash it for her? If I had an account in a local bank it would be no problem to cash. It was for $300.
I gave her $5 in cash. I told her to put the money in gas and drive to Wal Mart. It was 8 miles away. I gave her instructions. They were easy. She had a cell phone. From there she could call her husband and he could wire her money. She said he was not near a Wall Mart. I assured her that everyone in the US is within 20 miles of a Wall Mart. Call someone and have the have the money sent from another Wall Mart. It will come right away. I drove past the gas station 1 hour later and she was there still asking for gas money. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 26, 2014 8:42 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Is there an echo in here? Craig <[email protected]> wrote: I went to the bank and wired money to a company here in the US. The process took over an hour of my time, and the receiver didn't receive the money for serveral hours. That's not good. At Bank of America you can do it on line. If you have the info. about the other party it only takes five minutes. I don't know how long it takes the money to get there. I recall they charge a lot for overseas transactions. There is a way to do it with PayPal but I have never used it. It is a pain in the butt sending money to Japan. Europe is easy. - Jed
