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1,102 topics in this forum

  1. Hunting Iron Pigs

    By Nettie,
    • 0 replies
    • 1,022 views

  2. South African Man Unphased By Twister While Mowing His Lawn

    By JonnyBlaze,
    • 6 replies
    • 1,293 views

  3. New English word learned

    By Stefan,
    • 2 replies
    • 480 views

  4. Service at government departments

    By Merida,
    • 3 replies
    • 550 views

  5. Potential Skype interview problems!

    By Merida,
    • 8 replies
    • 634 views

  6. Getting creative

    By Painter lady,
    • 1 reply
    • 383 views

  7. This funny process we're approaching

    By Painter lady,
    • 7 replies
    • 818 views

  8. CPA in the GTA

    By MaryJane,
    • 1 reply
    • 414 views

  9. Welcome to Canada

    By Merida,
    • 1 reply
    • 478 views

  10. Ontario Woman follows GPS into Tobermory Harbour.....

    By Guest,
    • 1 reply
    • 372 views

  11. Astronomy Quiz

    By Merida,
    • 0 replies
    • 278 views

  12. Daylight Savings

    By Tracey22,
    • 3 replies
    • 515 views

  13. Have You Heard Aboot Larry?

    By MaryJane,   
    • 1 reply
    • 390 views

  14. Freezing cold in Eastern and Center Canada?

    By Cathy K,   
    • 9 replies
    • 622 views

  15. How much is a Streetwise Two...

    By Guest,
    • 4 replies
    • 616 views

  16. Southern BC in winter.

    By Cathy K,
    • 6 replies
    • 486 views

  17. A Brit's view on Canadian elections told to a US audience

    By Tracey22,
    • 2 replies
    • 574 views

  18. Wol of eall street SA style

    By Tracey22,
    • 0 replies
    • 424 views

  19. This would be funny if it wasn't a sad reflection of our society

    By eminembattlez,
    • 5 replies
    • 551 views

  20. Some interesting funny paradoxical articles

    By M-N,
    • 5 replies
    • 429 views

  21. Canada in a nutshell

    By Cathy K,
    • 6 replies
    • 699 views

  22. Oddball Interview Questions for 2015 - Canada

    By MaryJane,   
    • 3 replies
    • 535 views

  23. A list to provide to your Canadian friends

    By Onyx,
    • 7 replies
    • 676 views

  24. Just some harmless funnies

    By Sideline,
    • 3 replies
    • 750 views

  25. Classic Sit Coms

    By Merida,
    • 1 reply
    • 401 views

  • 5 Most Recent Posts

    • M_Richard
      Cheapest way to transfer funds internationally

      By M_Richard · Posted

      For transferring money from Canada to South Africa, bitcoin is very good if you learn to navigate the markets. You can buy bitcoin on Kraken exchange (deposit CAD) for low fees (+-0.25%) and then transfer it to Luno exchange and sell for ZAR. If you know how to navigate Luno, you can sell for zero fees, or instant sell is 1% fee but can be easily avoided. The main advantage of using bitcoin (BTC) is the fact that BTC typically trades at a 5% premium in SA. So your funds will actually become more. It is a bit of arbitrage trading mixed with remittance.  A quick example using current prices and fees:
      1. You deposit 10,902 CAD to Kraken, buy bitcoin at 0.25% fee (current price 10,875 CAD = 1 BTC), with the fee included, you now have 1 BTC 2. Transfer the 1 BTC to the SA Luno exchange wallet (low fixed transfer fee, like 20 ZAR). Then you sell for ZAR (at a 5% higher current price in SA of 123,000 ZAR, zero fees) and withdraw to a SA bank account (8.5 ZAR fixed fee). 3. So now you have R123,000 (minus like R30 fees) in you SA bank account. Compare this to transferring via a bank, who will give an exchange rate of around R10.33/CAD at the moment, excluding any other transfer fees or percentage based conversion fees. Working with R10.33/CAD, the original 10902 CAD will convert to 112,600 ZAR.  So with bitcoin, you actually get 10,000 ZAR more on the other side. Something to think about/worth investigating. Depends on the premium between the two exchanges, but SA is typically 2% to 6% more, the premium has even been as high as 10%. Obviously, for transferring for SA to Canada, the opposite is true.  
    • PyroSA
      Cheapest way to transfer funds internationally

      By PyroSA · Posted

      Xoom seems to support payments from USD, EUR and GBP only?
        There definitely is a CAD -> ZAR option, but that's not much use if I want to send over a lump sum for getting set up in Canada.  
    • Jules
      Cheapest way to transfer funds internationally

      By Jules · Posted

      I recall using Transferwise when my mom was still alive and I used to send her money from Canada to SA so there must be a CAD$ to ZAR option. I haven’t used it in a couple of years but their app was really good and fees were low. 
    • M-N
      Cheapest way to transfer funds internationally

      By M-N · Posted

      Have you looked into xoom? They're a new transfer service from PayPal.  
    • PyroSA
      Cheapest way to transfer funds internationally

      By PyroSA · Posted

      TransferWise and XE doesn't seem to have a ZAR -> CAD option. Exchange4Free OTP isn't my mobile phone at the moment Did my cash through FNB, their rate wasn't too bad to be honest.
      Asked if I can get a special rate for >R100k, but still haven't had a response from fxtravel@fnb.co.za