Payment to PBR

[Caveoftreasures]

16 months ago ?  With 3 dozen machines here, I have ordered many many thousands of dollars worth of parts from many many suppliers.
There have been litterally between fifty and one hundred orders done i reckon. You would know what i or Beaky ordered, but i dont have any record or memory of it.
I would suggest it was a one off order, cause I dont recall any.





 

[Redback]

Actually PBR has saved me money buy not accepting paypal or credit card.

Small order to BAA yesterday and the exchange rate on paypal as 1.02(something)
Western Union would have been around 1.053.  A small order like that one paypal would be cheaper due to no transfer fee.
However on larger orders would be cheaper transfering.

I order $900 in stepper motors (non pinball related) and got a crap rate from VISA and around $30 fees as well.

However soon will be ordering an eye for my Bone Busters Inc from RTTB,

Red

[Steve2010]

I received the large order from PBR a while back, and have been slowly using up the parts in the restoration of my pins.  There was one error in what was shipped (the caps for the Power Play were 100 points, instead of the 1000 points they should have been).

Steve at PBR was excellent in handling this, and promptly shipped the correct ones in a second shipment.  The postage for the 3 caps (even though of course I wasn't charged this) came to $3.46.  The postage for the entire order (and it was fairly sizeable) came to about $65, more than reasonable for its size and weight.

Just another small note to say that I would not hesitate to recommend Steve Young at PBR.  Very reasonable postage rates, big or small packages.

[Marty Machine]

Aus-Post has Western Union (international) money orders, i used to get them around 2-3 years ago, and only cost $8.50 as opposed to the 'then' CBA (& other banks) charging $20-$30.
I assume by now Aus-post may have risen from $8.50 to maybe $10????

MM.

[solar value]

What's the latest on this? Has anyone found better payment methods when buying through PBR?

[Ant68]

No ,Business as normal .

[goodolddays]

It really is pretty easy once you have made your initial order.

I just get an international bank draft from our credit union (which I do online), they post it to me and I then post it to PBR

[4_amusement_only]

I saw that many 7/11 petrol stations have a Western Union machine inside the actual store. Can be done pretty easily using that method apparently

[Retropin]

Register with Western Union and do the whole thing online.. its not hard and WU fee is only about $10

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Register with Western Union and do the whole thing online.. its not hard and WU fee is only about $10

good to know

[Strangeways]

Register with Western Union and do the whole thing online.. its not hard and WU fee is only about $10

I used to go to the PO and fill the CHQ in person, then post the CHQ. This online process - Does the online method $ go straight into PBR's Bank Account ?

[Retropin]

Register with Western Union and do the whole thing online.. its not hard and WU fee is only about $10

I used to go to the PO and fill the CHQ in person, then post the CHQ. This online process - Does the online method $ go straight into PBR's Bank Account ?

Well it goes to Steve as that's the ID he insists you give in order to do this. Steve then has to go to a WU outlet to claim his money. More work for Steve but less for the customer which is how it should be.

http://www.westernunion.com.au/au/Home.page

[solar value]

Thanks fellas, registered with WU online.

[scottnds]

Found this site the other day may be handy for someone. Google UStoOZ. They will buy stuff in USA for you and ship it to Australia.

[Ant68]

Well it goes to Steve as that's the ID he insists you give in order to do this. Steve then has to go to a WU outlet to claim his money. More work for Steve but less for the customer which is how it should be.

http://www.westernunion.com.au/au/Home.page
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I bought a fair bit from Steve not so long ago using WU ,did it on line found the exchange rate was terrible , like way worst then a bank  .It wasn't easy for me at all ,a rep from WU sends you an email that verifies everything the money was sent to Steve about 2 weeks later ! I think I would of been better of to send it DD to his account and pay his fee's on the side ( not sure if he still does that )
Parts came and there was a fair amount of wrong stuff supplied mainly rubber ring sets he later sent the correct 30 old rings to me (so all good there) can't see how you could get ring sets wrong but I hear from others it's a common occurrence.