Sending money to US for DVC resale

[Ann B]

HI
I am seriously thinking about buying DVC resale very soon. How do I actually send the money to the US? What do I need to do to get a US cheque? Or is there some other way to pay as I believe that I can't pay with my credit card!

Any advice would be great.
Thanks

Ann

[rosiejo]

Hi Ann - we bought our DVC direct and were able to use a credit card so it's worth checking out. If you do this though you need to use the Nationwide card to avoid excessive charges - they also give the best exchange rate.

Otherwise contact your bank about an International MoneyMover - which will transfer the money directly from your bank account to their's. There is a charge for this and it varies depending on how quickly you want the money to get there.

[nobodies36]

Once we decided we were going to buy, we set ourselves a limit and used HIFX to get a way better exchange rate. In the meantime we opened a US Dollar account at the Bank of Scotland (my bank), and then HIFX put the money back in (but in USD). Then (because of a hiccup with the account) I put the deposit on a 0% Credit Card (which was $1000 for the resale we picked). Then once everything went through I just sent a CHAPS payment from the new account for the balance. We recently got our USD cheque book.

HTH.

[julie.uk]

we went to our post office and they arranged for our cheque to be sent by a special method whereby it is tracked all the way, it took about 5 days to get there and cost £7.00.

[Ann B]

Thanks Julie
How easy was it to get a US $ cheque?
Ann