Sending money from UK to colombia

sandramoreno80 says on Oct 23, 2006, 10:37:

I think you pay about 2-3% comission on any "giros" that you send with any ex-pat latino business. But they do tend to be concentrated in London, we use Condor in Kennington have so for years. There are also many in Brixton, Elephant and Castle and some in North London.

With Condor you can pay personally over there or they give their bank details, you phone to send the money, they give you the price, you deposit the money then ring to confirm. But I do not know if this is only for established customers.

I am assuming that you are in London, if not then I can not think of any other way.

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fan of colombia says on Oct 23, 2006, 11:44:

Ingles, if you're in London as we are . . . We recommend Ria on 75 Baker Street.

Their phone is 207-224-5730.

We had concerns identical to yours, and we find their prices remarkably reasonable - in fact, downright kind.

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. says on Oct 23, 2006, 12:13:

What a pity I live in Bristol; hence I have to pay extortionate commission to Western Union every time I send any money to Colombia. Does anybody know if there is a way to do it from Bristol?

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ingles says on Oct 23, 2006, 14:14:

Unfortunately, i am not in London. What about Liverpool or Manchester anybody?

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Mr X says on Oct 24, 2006, 01:05:

Moneygram Outside of London I would use Moneygram rather than Western Union. They are a lot cheaper. But bear in mind that sending any small amount tends to be expensive percentage-wise. The more you send the cheaper it gets.
http://www.moneygram.com/Market/Market.htm?CC=GB&LC=EN

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larumberainglesa says on Oct 24, 2006, 02:29:

My advice I got this idea from someone on this site and it works fine. It takes a week or so to set up but once in place you can use it as often as you like. Open a current account with Nationwide building society (it has to be Nationwide as they don't charge for withdrawals abroad). Once you have your bank card send it to the person in Colombia via DHL or UPS (I used a cheaper courier - fast track - which wasn't fast at all and the card got stuck in Bogota and I had to pay more for them to send it to Tumaco so better to use an established dependable firm you can rely on). You're not supposed to send bank cards so I put it inside a DVD. Then when you get your pin number give it to them over the phone, deposit some money and they then draw it out from the cashpoint when they need it. It's working fine.

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