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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| Mail me the checks and I'll bring the cash back to you. I'll be arriving there in a couple weeks. |
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IGangwonedItUpinKorea
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| ChinaBoy wrote: |
| Mail me the checks and I'll bring the cash back to you. I'll be arriving there in a couple weeks. |
Well, in the case that you're being serious, I actually will already be out of the States by that time...but thank you.
If you're not being serious and trying to make me understand that this seems like a scam, then sorry, but I've come to understand how it does seem like one. |
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Scamps
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:22 am Post subject: |
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How about trying to contact a bank in Korea and see if they have any suggestions for you?
Otherwise if you trust me, you can mail me your checks (I'm in Korea) and I'll go to the bank and change them into USD and send whatever amount I get back to you.
Because...I don't know but if Korean banks won't help you unless you're in Korea your money is just going down the toilet so the way I see it you have two options.
1. Do nothing and your situation stays the same.
2. Trust a stranger and get something in return (if your money's really good). |
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IGangwonedItUpinKorea
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:56 am Post subject: |
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How about trying to contact a bank in Korea and see if they have any suggestions for you?
Otherwise if you trust me, you can mail me your checks (I'm in Korea) and I'll go to the bank and change them into USD and send whatever amount I get back to you.
Because...I don't know but if Korean banks won't help you unless you're in Korea your money is just going down the toilet so the way I see it you have two options.
1. Do nothing and your situation stays the same.
2. Trust a stranger and get something in return (if your money's really good). |
I have mailed it before to a friend that I have in Korea. I would do the same thing this time, but time is much more pressing. Even the fastest express service won't be able to have the money back to me by the time that I need it, which is basically yesterday. 
That's basically why I signed up for this site; I've been seeing if there is someone in Chicago (or in Illinois) who can exchange currencies with me. |
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Scamps
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:59 am Post subject: |
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It seems like you're out of luck.
But you should still send them to your friend in Korea and have them send you the money to whatever part of the world you're going to. |
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IGangwonedItUpinKorea
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:14 am Post subject: |
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It seems like you're out of luck.
But you should still send them to your friend in Korea and have them send you the money to whatever part of the world you're going to. |
I just might be doing that, but I can't have him send the money to me outside the States because, unlike companies in Korea, I'm required to pay for my own plane ticket. |
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Scamps
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:19 am Post subject: |
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Sorry either what you just said didn't make sense or I'm too tired to get it...but your friend can change the money for you and wire it to your new bank account and it will appear in the currency that your new country uses.
I don't have any more tips for you. Good luck! |
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IGangwonedItUpinKorea
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Sorry either what you just said didn't make sense or I'm too tired to get it...but your friend can change the money for you and wire it to your new bank account and it will appear in the currency that your new country uses.
I don't have any more tips for you. Good luck! |
Oh, I meant that what I need the money to do is pay for my plane ticket to get over there. The rest will serve as my startup cash, which thanks to having worked in Korea and having saved some, should be more than enough to be quite comfortably settled. |
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Scamps
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Now your post really makes no sense! If you need the money now you have to wait in the US because you don't have enough money to get your plane ticket yet you say because you worked in Korea you have plenty of money saved up...now I think this is a bunch of bologna.
If it's true then you know what you have to do! Ask you friend to change the checks and wire the cash to you in the US ASAP.
Your trip will have to be delayed but that's what you get for not planning better. I'm not trying to be rude but I hope you learned a lesson. |
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IGangwonedItUpinKorea
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:50 am Post subject: |
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| Scamps wrote: |
Now your post really makes no sense! If you need the money now you have to wait in the US because you don't have enough money to get your plane ticket yet you say because you worked in Korea you have plenty of money saved up...now I think this is a bunch of bologna.
If it's true then you know what you have to do! Ask you friend to change the checks and wire the cash to you in the US ASAP.
Your trip will have to be delayed but that's what you get for not planning better. I'm not trying to be rude but I hope you learned a lesson. |
That's what I've been trying not to do, and that's why I created this post: I'm trying NOT to have my arrival delayed (this is a job, not a trip). It's not so much my faulty planning, since I was told that I have to arrive two weeks earlier than the date by which I had been under the impression that I would need to arrive...and this was told to me not even a week ago.
By "plenty of money", I included the Korean pension money in there, which was deposited after I had left Korea (I had it deposited there because it's my only bank account).
I made the post because I want to try to find someone Korea-bound who is still in Chicago and is willing to exchange at a pretty good discounted rate. |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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| good god. mail them to me. i think you'll end up lighting those checks on fire or something if you hold onto them much longer. |
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IGangwonedItUpinKorea
Joined: 17 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| good god. mail them to me. i think you'll end up lighting those checks on fire or something if you hold onto them much longer. |
I'd only light these checks on fire if I were lighting myself on fire along with them, which would be done downtown in public as a big FML gesture.
By the way, thanks, but I already have a friend in Korea to whom I am able to mail them. I have just been trying to find people in Chicago who are Korea-bound, because speed is key here.., FedEx and apparently customs (even for "documents") in Korea fail when it comes to that. |
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