I live in Charlotte, NC and am currently working with a software
programmer in Georgia, Europe.   For his services, I need to have a
way for me to transfer money or add money into some type of money
account quickly.   I've checked and PayPal will not work for his
country.   Please give me 2 or 3 suggested solutions for this problem.

Thanks

Darrell Tyler

Dear Target Market, 

The first alternative might be Western Union. Western Union would wire
the money to this person's post office (or Western Union) office, and
s/he will pick it up from there. Please note, that sending money
through Western Union is good only for cases like yours, when you know
the person and trust him/her, because it is like sending the money
through the post, in the sense that you cannot recover it:

Western Union
<http://www.westernunion.com/> 

Netteler seem to be a service, where you can transfer funds through
e-cheques, ATM cards (they send him an ATM card and he can withrdaw
the money in Georgia through ATM machines), etc.
Neteller
<http://www.neteller.com/ab/> 

A list of PayPal alternatives could be found on the site "PayPal
Sucks" (of course, an anti-PayPal site):
No-PayPal Alternatives & Options 
<http://www.paypalsucks.com/options.shtml> 

I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.

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Request for Answer Clarification by targetmarket-ga on 30 Jun 2005 11:16 PDT

Let me get with my contact in Georgia Europe and see if they have any
additional question.

Thanks

Darrell

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Clarification of Answer by politicalguru-ga on 01 Jul 2005 05:27 PDT

I hope that everything would work out for you two!

Thanks for your help with this project . ..  We'll look into your suggestions.

In case the programmer has a bank account, have you considered a
simple direct bank transfer?

Scriptor

yes . . however, the charge is $13.  I need a less expensive way.

I don't think you will find cheaper than $13.

J

HI,
This site tells about what banks in Georgia can do, also accept checks
on other banks.
You could buy a banker's draft  (a check issued by a bank), but this
would cost you something, and it would probably cost your programmer
even more to have it cashed or credited to his account.
Scriptor has the best suggestion:  a direct bank transfer.  It will be
fastest and should minimize costs for the programmer.  The $13 seems
reasonable, and could perhaps be seen in relationship to the price for
the programmer's work in comparison with what it would have cost
elsewhere.
Myoarin

Sorry, here is that site:

http://www.oey-tiflis.org.ge/economic%20sectors.htm