human centipede...

Anyone using AP with AMEX successfully? Are the FR's because of over zealousness? I was hoping to do a spend in small payments over six months. Thanks.

how to receive money from foreign bank accounts
 

Does anyone know a work around so that you can receive funds from someone who has a foreign bank account? I messaged Amazon Payments and they said that transfers must come from US banks. My son has a bank account in Canada and occasionally needs to send me money to pay some his bills. Any ideas, crazy or otherwise, are appreciated.

No, the FRs are because AMEX hates on financial heretics. As a newly minted bank they have some fear of the unknown as well as a predisposition to be liberal in burning customers at the stake. You mistake zeal with fanatical devotion to the pope (His Holiness, The AMEX FR Playbook). First they shut all your accounts down to get you attention, then they make demands, then they take their time to check you out, then they cut your credit line to show they mean business, then in a year you are redeemed (which just means worthy of a future inquisition).

Prefer you don't do AP with AMEX. AMEX is better in grocery stores for those peculiar groceries that are long, thin and plastic. The AMEX cardinals cannot tell the difference between a turnip and a gift card bought in a grocery store. And people gotta eat, but they don't gotta do a bundle of repetitive transactions on AP.

This defeats the whole purpose of using AP. If you want to bank account to bank account, might as well do checks or bank transfers. AP is good for generating credit card spends. Does your son have any miles generating credit cards?

You sadly under estimate your foe. They surely know how much a turnip costs. When they look at your bill they either think you are up to no good or are eating better than them. They don’t care for either situation. The next knock on your door probably is not going to be Jimmy Johns! :D

For those FTers that are a little confused by AlohaDaveKendy's "tongue & Cheek" reference to "heretics" and the "Cardinals" in this post and others, check out thus youtube clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixgc_FGam3s

Sorry Dave If I'm spilling the beans...

QL_714 - my foes ain't gonna knock on the door if I stay on the Viking ship with Sven, Lars and the gang from Capital One.:D Besides, my "foes" already blessed my unholy shopping spree that started after my FR when I promised I would stop stocking out AMEX gift cards to use over at at Tiny Tim's Metalworks. I kept my end of the bargain, which was kinda easy since Tiny Tim shut down the metalworks. I agree Fang shoulda known I was up to no good, but I think he and Biggles were distracted in their endless search for comfy cushions with the right amount of stuffing.:D

YDKM - you know when ever I'm in Hawaii or the Keys or other spots with photographers wanting to take your picture with parrots, they always seem to manage to find a Norweigian Blue who will rest upside down on your arm while pining for the fjords.:D

I have never had a problem using an Am Ex with AP but I keep the amounts realy low (like $575 a month). I used Am Ex for some substantial amounts when the mint was around and avoid an FR, so not sure if I was just lucky or if the people that had FR's where were REALLY going overboard at the mint.

I have been meaning to set up AP for myself anyway, and I was just thinking that I could use this for the payment transfers from my son as well as my own nefarious purposes.

My son just received a secured Capital One credit card, but needs to keep it funded w/dollars. His money is in a Canadian account in Canadian dollars.

AP fees?
 

are there fees? i did an ap on a chase sapphire of 10 bucks and i think i had an 11 dollar fee.

i would like to use the chase ink bold to pay regular things like 'landscaper' for 120 and health insurance for 200 versus using bank bill pay to make checks. should i do a test run with chase ink or in the vast experience on this board, what fees, if any, do you see with chase cards...

Make sure when you do the payment you are saying it's for the purchase of goods/services and not a cash advance. If you go that route there shouldn't be a fee. You probably selected cash advance instead and were charged the fee for a cash advance.

AFAIK, the recepient has to have a AP account as well. You can't just tell AP to cut a check to your landscaper or insurance company like you can on your banks bill payer site

fake SSN?
 

I have someone that wants to start paying me via AP, but they don't want to give AP their SSN. I told him if anyone gets 1099'd it would be me as the recepient, not him as the payor but he still doesn't want to give it out.

Does AP verify the SSN? I am thinking of telling him just to put in 9 random numbers instead.

May this thread fade into obscurity...

Amen to that.