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As I think I've mentioned here before, I have never, not once, in 19 years been able to conclude a successful MG transaction (not just to the most common destination, but to other destinations as well) - On the two occasions the transfer seemed to be successful, I got a call from MG hours later telling me that their security department "wasn't comfortable with the transaction", and I had to go get my funds back.
I've had 200% better luck with WU over the same 19 years, a few problems along the way with a flagged receiver, a limited number of pickup locations at the destination that are too far for the receiver to bother traveling to, misspelled receiver names (provided by the jewelry vendor - I always triple check all of the information supplied for making the donation and write it on a piece of notepad paper to take with me), but of the hundreds of WU donations I've made to date, I've only experienced perhaps ten, twelve tops of these sorts of problems.
Here lately, even WU seems to be making it almost impossible to buy genuine native made silver and turquoise jewelry from our friends who ply their wares from the area where such items are crafted - I had a perfectly good transaction yesterday, with both the agent and the WU brick and mortar location, the agent on the phone, and the WU website indicating funds had arrived and were ready for pickup, but the receiver wasn't able to pick them up, and when I went back to the brick and mortar location, all was well in their WU computer. I checked with the jewelry vendor again (my wife loves that Mayan calendar themed stuff), but no dice - On his end, the receiver was told there was no such tracking number. In order to get my funds back (minus the transaction fee, of course), I had to get on the line with the agent at the brick and mortar location on speakerphone and speak with a supervisor at WU, who of course needed my name, address, and phone number to look up the transaction, have the brick and mortar location agent review my driver's license to make sure it was actually me who was the sender (this is why I always use my real name / address / phone when sending, if you don't, and something goes wrong, you can't get your funds back), then allowed me to fill out a receiver form from me to me, and return my funds, without any explanation of why the tracking number wasn't available.
I'm going to try MG again tomorrow morning with a different vendor who's super-well reviewed here (but who only accepts MG), she's told me she has the necklace I'm looking for in stock, but for God's sake, I shouldn't have to take a freaking Ks@l@l 30 minutes before walking into the MG brick and mortar location simply to transfer a relatively small amount of funds. I know that a lot of this has to do with the war ondrugs our neighbors, but MG and WU are getting almost impossible for me to use.
If anyone has any handy-dandy methods, tricks, spells, or persuasions they'd be willing to share for MG in particular, I would love to hear them - I'd really like to order this necklace tomorrow so that it can be delivered on Thursday, and there is another necklace and a set of earrings I'd like to order from the same vendor next week.
Thanks all, and have a good 'un.
- b2g
I've had 200% better luck with WU over the same 19 years, a few problems along the way with a flagged receiver, a limited number of pickup locations at the destination that are too far for the receiver to bother traveling to, misspelled receiver names (provided by the jewelry vendor - I always triple check all of the information supplied for making the donation and write it on a piece of notepad paper to take with me), but of the hundreds of WU donations I've made to date, I've only experienced perhaps ten, twelve tops of these sorts of problems.
Here lately, even WU seems to be making it almost impossible to buy genuine native made silver and turquoise jewelry from our friends who ply their wares from the area where such items are crafted - I had a perfectly good transaction yesterday, with both the agent and the WU brick and mortar location, the agent on the phone, and the WU website indicating funds had arrived and were ready for pickup, but the receiver wasn't able to pick them up, and when I went back to the brick and mortar location, all was well in their WU computer. I checked with the jewelry vendor again (my wife loves that Mayan calendar themed stuff), but no dice - On his end, the receiver was told there was no such tracking number. In order to get my funds back (minus the transaction fee, of course), I had to get on the line with the agent at the brick and mortar location on speakerphone and speak with a supervisor at WU, who of course needed my name, address, and phone number to look up the transaction, have the brick and mortar location agent review my driver's license to make sure it was actually me who was the sender (this is why I always use my real name / address / phone when sending, if you don't, and something goes wrong, you can't get your funds back), then allowed me to fill out a receiver form from me to me, and return my funds, without any explanation of why the tracking number wasn't available.
I'm going to try MG again tomorrow morning with a different vendor who's super-well reviewed here (but who only accepts MG), she's told me she has the necklace I'm looking for in stock, but for God's sake, I shouldn't have to take a freaking Ks@l@l 30 minutes before walking into the MG brick and mortar location simply to transfer a relatively small amount of funds. I know that a lot of this has to do with the war on
If anyone has any handy-dandy methods, tricks, spells, or persuasions they'd be willing to share for MG in particular, I would love to hear them - I'd really like to order this necklace tomorrow so that it can be delivered on Thursday, and there is another necklace and a set of earrings I'd like to order from the same vendor next week.
Thanks all, and have a good 'un.
- b2g
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