alfieconn Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, taiping said: I asked Transferwise about a FET form. This is what they said (which is what we have been trying to tell you) . . . "Since we pay out the money from a local account based in Thailand, it is a domestic payment so our banking partner doesn’t generate Foreign Exchange Transaction forms. That said, we always offer transfer receipt for each completed payment in a form of a PDF file available to download once you log in on our platform." To be fair TW are not going to care and beside's it's not them who would issue an FET form, it would be a Thai bank. Anyway, so your basicly saying that you have bought money into the country but no one will give you confirmation of this ? so what happens if you wanted to repatriate all the funds (and you would need to prove that you bought the funds into the country) you have bought in the country through TW ? When someone in Thailand requires an FET form it's because they want proof you have bought money into the country. By giving TW your home currency and withdrawing the equivalent out of your Thai bank. A. You have completed a Foreign Exchange Transaction. B. You have bought money into the country So you either require an FET form or something similar from a Thai bank that confirm's that you have bought money into the country more fool anyway who doesn't chase up written confirmation from a Thai Bank. Like i have already said, you can obtain a Credit Advice form from your Thai bank confirming that the Thai baht credited to your account has been paid from another Thai bank, perhaps that will suffice as a confirmation but i doubt it, or as i have previously mentioned ask the Thai Bank who paid the funds to your Thai bank if they could confirm why they are paying you the money, which was on instruction from TW in respect of a Foreign Exchange Transaction. Incidently, supposing the Thai authorities looked into your account and queried all these credit's to your account from another Thai bank, what documentation would you show them ? Anyway i'm out of here now as it's all getting a bit boring !! Edited June 27, 2018 by alfieconn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post taiping Posted June 28, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 28, 2018 11 hours ago, alfieconn said: To be fair TW are not going to care and beside's it's not them who would issue an FET form, it would be a Thai bank. Anyway, so your basicly saying that you have bought money into the country but no one will give you confirmation of this ? so what happens if you wanted to repatriate all the funds (and you would need to prove that you bought the funds into the country) you have bought in the country through TW ? When someone in Thailand requires an FET form it's because they want proof you have bought money into the country. By giving TW your home currency and withdrawing the equivalent out of your Thai bank. A. You have completed a Foreign Exchange Transaction. B. You have bought money into the country So you either require an FET form or something similar from a Thai bank that confirm's that you have bought money into the country more fool anyway who doesn't chase up written confirmation from a Thai Bank. Like i have already said, you can obtain a Credit Advice form from your Thai bank confirming that the Thai baht credited to your account has been paid from another Thai bank, perhaps that will suffice as a confirmation but i doubt it, or as i have previously mentioned ask the Thai Bank who paid the funds to your Thai bank if they could confirm why they are paying you the money, which was on instruction from TW in respect of a Foreign Exchange Transaction. Incidently, supposing the Thai authorities looked into your account and queried all these credit's to your account from another Thai bank, what documentation would you show them ? Anyway i'm out of here now as it's all getting a bit boring !! Obviously, the take away is do not use Transferwise if you require a FET, but use a normal bank tranfer instead. It's not rocket science. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfieconn Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 3 hours ago, taiping said: Obviously, the take away is do not use Transferwise if you require a FET, but use a normal bank tranfer instead. It's not rocket science. Some people might not always know that they will need an FET in the future, take a scenario of living comfortably in Thailand for 5 years, circumstances change and you need to re-locate back to your home country, how are you going re-repatriate any of the funds you've bought over for the last 5 years ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubascuba3 Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 Some people might not always know that they will need an FET in the future, take a scenario of living comfortably in Thailand for 5 years, circumstances change and you need to re-locate back to your home country, how are you going re-repatriate any of the funds you've bought over for the last 5 years ? You can't. They should have known that. Unless you have a large suitcase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taiping Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 6 hours ago, alfieconn said: Some people might not always know that they will need an FET in the future, take a scenario of living comfortably in Thailand for 5 years, circumstances change and you need to re-locate back to your home country, how are you going re-repatriate any of the funds you've bought over for the last 5 years ? Did anyone say life was fair? Should have thought of that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OJAS Posted June 29, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2018 On 6/28/2018 at 9:05 AM, alfieconn said: Some people might not always know that they will need an FET in the future, take a scenario of living comfortably in Thailand for 5 years, circumstances change and you need to re-locate back to your home country, how are you going re-repatriate any of the funds you've bought over for the last 5 years ? My wife has provided me with such invaluable assistance in spending the funds I've brought over to LOS over the past 5 years that the question of repatriating any of said funds would not arise in my case!? 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Bang Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 (edited) Did three transactions with TW in the past couple of weeks after finding out about them early in this thread. Two transfers from my US ac. to my ac. here in Bkk, one from the US to an Indian entity. Eezy, peezy, go to their website, click, click, chant the secret spell, and bingo your money's moved like Kim shot it in a rocket. Highly recommended. Edited June 29, 2018 by Bang Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunBENQ Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 I got a newsletter email from transferwise. It's about a change of fees for EUR to THB transactions. So far the fees were: 2 EUR + 0.7%. From July 5, 2018 the fees change to 3 EUR + 0.5%. So transactions of less then 500 EUR will become slightly more expensive while above 500 EUR the fees will go down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubascuba3 Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 I got a newsletter email from transferwise. It's about a change of fees for EUR to THB transactions. So far the fees were: 2 EUR + 0.7%. From July 5, 2018 the fees change to 3 EUR + 0.5%. So transactions of less then 500 EUR will become slightly more expensive while above 500 EUR the fees will go down. Transferwise should really have tiered fees, their scale means transfers over 2000 euros are best avoided. What muppet will transfer a million euro and pay a 4000 euro fee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2004 Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 (edited) 19 hours ago, scubascuba3 said: Transferwise should really have tiered fees, their scale means transfers over 2000 euros are best avoided. What muppet will transfer a million euro and pay a 4000 euro fee If using TW gets you an extra 0.4 baht on the exchange rate then the million euros saves you 400,000 baht which more than covers the 4000 euro fee. Currently TW offer a rate of 38.57, Krungsri Bank offer 38.17 on TTs. Edited July 1, 2018 by chris2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jip99 Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 (edited) 7 minutes ago, chris2004 said: If using TW gets you an extra 0.5 baht on the exchange rate then the million euros saves you 500,000 baht which more than covers the 4000 euro fee. Agree 100% with that theory. The fee is irrelevant if you receive more Baht overall. The only issue is the 2,000,000 Baht transfer limit on TW. You send 1,000,000 EUR fee 5,905.75 EUR Our fee - 5,905.75 EUR Total fees 994,094.25 EUR Amount we'll convert 38.57904 Maximum is 2,000,000 THB Should arrive by Jul 4 Maximum is 2,000,000 THB Should arrive by Jul 4 Edited July 1, 2018 by Jip99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubascuba3 Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 If using TW gets you an extra 0.4 baht on the exchange rate then the million euros saves you 400,000 baht which more than covers the 4000 euro fee. Currently TW offer a rate of 38.57, Krungsri Bank offer 38.17 on TTs.Always tricky comparing as the rate you get a few days later won't be the 38.17 in your example. Need to transfer when the rate is trending up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 No problem at all, great service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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