Anyone ever bid with Numisor SA?

When one lives in Canada, you really get dinged on exchange rates
We pay for....
$1.35=1US$
$i.65= 1EURO
$1.70=1 UK Pd.
$1.42= 1 SFRC

 

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And those are just the exchanges before the rate is hiked up as an ancillary fee by paypal.

 

Being in the UK, and as a collector of world coins, I buy almost everything from overseas, and the exchange rate for the British Pound always has to be taken into account. For the last few years this has been terrible and I considered going back and concentrating on completing my British sets - as it turns out most quality British coins come up for auction outside of the UK so that didn't help either!

I usually use 'transferwise.com' and pay by bank transfer as this seems to be the cheapest way of doing things - took just a couple of hours for Numisor to get the payment this time.

A pet hate is that a few auction houses still charge a fee for accepting a bank transfer which is unbelievable with modern banking practices and they should change their bank!