My boyfriend and I have known each other for 5-6 years and I have made a decision to move in with him. The issue is that he and I live in two different countries. I for one live in Australia and he lives in Arizona. I have tried to convince him that I would go through the effort of purchasing the passport and plane tickets (though I am unsure how long it would have taken because of the economic fall) but he convinced me that he could pay for my trip and passport.
He has gone to the bank on several occassions to get the information that his bank needed to transfer money overseas and I had given all the details that he needed. When he went to the bank next they had told him that there were some complications in finding my bank. So now we are trying to transfer through paypal. His next idea was to link his bank account to my paypal send the money to my paypal account, and then put the money into my bank account, although I think that is way too risky. And I'm not even 100% certain that it is legal, nor do I want to take the risk of finding out since the paypal account is under my name.
I have tried to seek information about transfering money from paypal to paypal but I couldn't find any information on the topic. How do you transfer money from Paypal to Paypal? If that doesn't work can someone please give me advice on how to transfer money overseas and what other options there is? Please help me, I am desperate to be with my boyfriend because I love him dearly.
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Within Paypal he chooses to send money. He then sends the money from his Paypal account directly to your Paypal account from which you can then tansfer the money to your bank to pay for the tickets.
As well as giving him your bank account number did you give him your banks SWIFT code? (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) Paypal is much better (and cheaper) To transfer money by Paypal you have to have your own separate Paypal accounts. You have one and he has one. On www.paypal.com.au you create a Australian account with your email address as the logon, and you link your Australian bank account to it. Likewise he opens his own www.paypal.com account in the states with his own email address and he links his US bank account to that. When everything is linked up. He logs into his paypal account and transfers his money into your Australian email address from the account that he has linked in paypal (to the account you have linked in your Paypal). easy peasy.