never cashed a cheque from the us
 

im in the UK, does anyone have any idea whether halifax charge anything for this....

Thanks

PS. I cant bear to go into my branch to find out, they will probably tell me i have to arrange a meeting next week to find out.

Do they have a phone? :)

Most banks are likely to charge for depositing a foreign cheque. Prepare for a possible flooring when you hear the fee.

I got a good laugh when I went to a different branch than the one I usually go to. They wanted to charge me $110 to cash ONE check :)

£9 for as many checks I can fit on their form at Barclays. Also worth note that they do make a little from the exchange rate they give you.

FYI $10 (aussie dollars) to bank an international cheque here!

If I remember correctly Halifax wanted to charge me around £35 per US cheque, Lloyds are £8 for as many as you want to deposit in one go :)

cashing US checks over here used to be good :(

use epassporte .. checks sux

youre British??? Ok well ask for wires not cheques takes ages to clear and costs are damn high

Deposit it. Youll be fine.

Not if you use currency negotitation with Barclays - next working day

5u$s for small checks here, above 1k it's about 1,5% not bad :)

holy thats retarded, i don't get charged anything to cash USD checks.

Last time I cashed a cheque, it was a one of charge of £8 for as many cheques as I wished :) has to fill in a form to do this too.

This was HSBC btw

Most european banks are not keen on checks. I pay 12 euros in the Netherlands. That's really awesome with a 50$ dollar check....

yea and the 28days to clear that go with it :mad:

With natwest if u get a US $ account they charge u less and you can sign a form to say if it bounces you'll cover it and they will credit you in about a week.

unless they are non profitable,they'll charge :-)

Halifax ? Isn't that a CITY?

Yep

and a world war two bomber plane :glugglug

i havnt spoken to wegcash yet, but from what i see they dont offer another option, except wire, and the minimum is 1000. It would take me quite a long time to reach that. Ill ask the bank tomorrow, i have a meeting at my local branch because ive lost my book for my savings account. Hopefully ill speak to someone from Wegcash tonight, but from what i see they dont offer any other epassporte

Thanks for the response

Ev

Just out of interest, if you havnt banked a US check before, do you have sponsors who pay in £ pounds , Id like some of those too :)

One option to reduce fees is to get a US $ account. I had one with HSBC....Then you can trasfer only the $$ you need each month to a sterling account.

Well natwest charges commision of about 1% + £2 flat fee... although I doubt their capability of cashing in U.S cheques anymore, they're recently been cashing them in as CAD, fuck knows why and added an extra $150 charge for each cheque I cash. It's mad.. time to switch bank.

credit unions do it for $8

commonwealth usually screws US checks up which means the clearance time is only 2-3 days from deposit. Also if checks are from the same bank, its $10 for UNLIMITED checks :)

Depositing it would be easier