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Warning - do not use IGE's bank transfer option

Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
03-11-2005 05:11
If you sell currency on IGE, do not use the bank transfer option, stick with Paypal or corporate check and you will have no problems (I have never had a problem with any transactions with them in a year). There is very limited information on their site about the option, but you ultimately find out that they charge a $45 fee (on top of any fees your bank charges for an incoming wire), and it isn't sent out for 5-7 business days after the transaction. I placed an order on Monday, on on Wednesday received an email informing me of the $45 charge. I contacted their customer service online, and got them to switch it back to Paypal and had it in my paypal account within 15 minutes. If you want to get it into your bank account, send it to Paypal first and then do a transfer - it is faster, and has no fee other than the standard Paypal fee you incur anyway. Definitely never use bank transfer. I would imagine this applies to buying also (though why you would use a bank wire instead of Paypal to buy, I'm not sure).
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Charlotte Gillespie
2 - 0 Lindens
Join date: 19 Nov 2004
Posts: 1,101
03-11-2005 05:22
You could have put this at the bottom of my "IGE - fuckwits" thread a few posts down on the forum :)

They really are (edited), aren't they?