bazooka Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 I agreed to pay for my umwelt sticker by cheque to TUV NORD Mobilitat for 12.50 euroes.Having received my sticker i am confused how to make a cheque out as my cheques have the pound sighn before the amount. Is it possible to have a building society cheque made out to pay in euroes.I wish ihad paid by credit card but i was worried about security, can anyone help. Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupert123 Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 bazooka - 2012-01-13 8:25 PM I agreed to pay for my umwelt sticker by cheque to TUV NORD Mobilitat for 12.50 euroes.Having received my sticker i am confused how to make a cheque out as my cheques have the pound sighn before the amount. Is it possible to have a building society cheque made out to pay in euroes.I wish ihad paid by credit card but i was worried about security, can anyone help. Baz You cannot pay by cheque. Your bank could issue one but it will cost. I made the same mistake and just stuck the euro's in an envelope and posted them. Never heard anything else so assume all received ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted January 13, 2012 Author Share Posted January 13, 2012 thanks Rupert123 It makes me feel better Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob b Posted January 13, 2012 Share Posted January 13, 2012 Have you checked to see if you pay on-line? By that I mean transfer the money electronically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted January 14, 2012 Author Share Posted January 14, 2012 Hi Bob,sorry about the delay,i don't know how i can do that without a link to put my details in.My son tells me he has a french bank acount so i am going to send one of his cheques as its a euro acount.Thanks for your help. Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljay Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but Euro cheques are normally only valid in the country of issue. I would suggest that you do as a previous poster did and put the cash in an envelope to them, with a covering letter in English. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 eljay - 2012-01-14 9:22 PM Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but Euro cheques are normally only valid in the country of issue. I would suggest that you do as a previous poster did and put the cash in an envelope to them, with a covering letter in English. John Agreed. The currency is shared across borders, but bank accounts are not. For the payee to be able to bank the cheque, he would have to have opened an account with the same bank. Unlikely for a German organisation dealing with a Euro cheque drawn on a French account. Either pay on-line by card, or stick Euros in the post with a copy of whatever paperwork came with the plakette, so that they know whose account to clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowtelse2do Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Any coins jingling in the letter could be tempting for someone, either here or over there ;-) Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupert123 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 nowtelse2do - 2012-01-15 1:40 PM Any coins jingling in the letter could be tempting for someone, either here or over there ;-) Dave I did not put coins in just a 10 euro and 5 euro note. Told them to keep the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowtelse2do Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Good to see you're doing your bit for the euro Henry :-D Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted January 15, 2012 Author Share Posted January 15, 2012 Thanks everyone for replying to my problem.Now the french cheque idea is out,I think i will skype them and try to pay on line as sugested. Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 rupert123 - 2012-01-13 8:31 PM bazooka - 2012-01-13 8:25 PM I agreed to pay for my umwelt sticker by cheque to TUV NORD Mobilitat for 12.50 euroes.Having received my sticker i am confused how to make a cheque out as my cheques have the pound sighn before the amount. Is it possible to have a building society cheque made out to pay in euroes.I wish ihad paid by credit card but i was worried about security, can anyone help. Baz You cannot pay by cheque. Your bank could issue one but it will cost. I made the same mistake and just stuck the euro's in an envelope and posted them. Never heard anything else so assume all received ok. You can pay by cheque! Having just sent an English cheque from my bank current account with a Spanish bank to a Dutch company made out in Euros for 915.00 euro all I had to do was put my address on the back of the cheque. The bank charged be a £10 fee for processing/handling when funds were cleared. You can also get your bank to raise a cheque in euros payable to the foreign company. My bank would give you the exchange rate of the day, deduct the funds from your account immediately and charge a £10 fee and hand you the cheque. The cost of an international transfer is £25 from most banks and a percentage from the Post Office (around 4% when I asked.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupert123 Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 DJP - 2012-01-24 9:47 AM rupert123 - 2012-01-13 8:31 PM bazooka - 2012-01-13 8:25 PM I agreed to pay for my umwelt sticker by cheque to TUV NORD Mobilitat for 12.50 euroes.Having received my sticker i am confused how to make a cheque out as my cheques have the pound sighn before the amount. Is it possible to have a building society cheque made out to pay in euroes.I wish ihad paid by credit card but i was worried about security, can anyone help. Baz You cannot pay by cheque. Your bank could issue one but it will cost. I made the same mistake and just stuck the euro's in an envelope and posted them. Never heard anything else so assume all received ok. You can pay by cheque! Having just sent an English cheque from my bank current account with a Spanish bank to a Dutch company made out in Euros for 915.00 euro all I had to do was put my address on the back of the cheque. The bank charged be a £10 fee for processing/handling when funds were cleared. You can also get your bank to raise a cheque in euros payable to the foreign company. My bank would give you the exchange rate of the day, deduct the funds from your account immediately and charge a £10 fee and hand you the cheque. The cost of an international transfer is £25 from most banks and a percentage from the Post Office (around 4% when I asked.) In my post I did say a bank could issue one but cost is a touch excessive for a 12euro amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGD Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 rupert123 - 2012-01-24 12:01 PM DJP - 2012-01-24 9:47 AM rupert123 - 2012-01-13 8:31 PM bazooka - 2012-01-13 8:25 PM I agreed to pay for my umwelt sticker by cheque to TUV NORD Mobilitat for 12.50 euroes.Having received my sticker i am confused how to make a cheque out as my cheques have the pound sighn before the amount. Is it possible to have a building society cheque made out to pay in euroes.I wish ihad paid by credit card but i was worried about security, can anyone help. Baz You cannot pay by cheque. Your bank could issue one but it will cost. I made the same mistake and just stuck the euro's in an envelope and posted them. Never heard anything else so assume all received ok. You can pay by cheque! Having just sent an English cheque from my bank current account with a Spanish bank to a Dutch company made out in Euros for 915.00 euro all I had to do was put my address on the back of the cheque. The bank charged be a £10 fee for processing/handling when funds were cleared. You can also get your bank to raise a cheque in euros payable to the foreign company. My bank would give you the exchange rate of the day, deduct the funds from your account immediately and charge a £10 fee and hand you the cheque. The cost of an international transfer is £25 from most banks and a percentage from the Post Office (around 4% when I asked.) In my post I did say a bank could issue one but cost is a touch excessive for a 12euro amount. I don't think it's necessary for a bank to issue the cheque - just write it yourself if you absolutely need to. I have written cheques in euros from my UK bank account a couple of times, and they get paid just fine. BUT the exchange rate your UK bank charges is utter rubbish, and they charge (or at least my UK bank did) a hefty admin fee. So whilst in my experience there's no problem in principle at all in writing and sending off a UK cheque marked in euros to a mainland Europe euro-zone company/entity/person (just cross the pounds sign out and put the euro sign in it's place, and write "X euros" in the space for the written amount) it's NOT cost effective for small amounts of money. Might be useful in a dire emergency though as a backstop, if all other sources of funds are not available.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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