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Originally Posted by Adraco
Above is the correct answer.
Banks can and will use different intermediaries from one day to another. Depending on who offer to "broker" or "handle" the transactions at the lowest cost. So your money may be on one route month1 and take a different route in month2. This is also why the fee can sometimes vary (most of the time the fee is $25 or $30). It's a nice system for banks, where they more or less freely can dip their fingers into your little honey pot and grab a nice little commission for themselves and you can't do anything about it and those fees are seldom or never disclosed before sending the transfer.
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Are you trying to justify a $88 wire because someone here is using of a fucked up poorly connected banks? Last time I debated this with a bank they said the cost depends on the amount of intermediaries between banks. Better connected the bank is (read bigger and better it is) less of these routes they need to take and less the wire costs.
Using such an excuse like you posted is having no problem with DHL telling you the parcel delivery is gonna cost $50 and then it costs $88 because, well, you know, their airplane broke down so they had to use a regular line to deliver your parcel so it's entirely your fault it's more expensive.
That sort of thing never happens with DHL. And so it shouldn't with Paxum. If $50 doesn't cover a wire from CA to EU and it has to rise 50% to 60% just because a shitty bank was used that thinks that can be imposed on their clients AND at the same time Paxum feels that's ok then we have a problem.
What I find disturbing is Paxum not commenting on this. How that can you charge $50 for a wire and then have it cost $88 at the end and not give a fuck about it?