Western Union fucked up with me
 

here is the story
yesterday I deposit 4600 USD in WU agent office here in Czech.Transfer fees were 220 USD so total 4820.
But my friend in US wasn't able to pick up the funds the same day.My friend told me that local agent in USA announced possible fraud transaction.
So today I spend the whole day calling thier call centers and talking to local agent.After several hours I got the final result.
"The amount of money is unussualy high for transfers from countries like Czech republic" - fuck me my mother - do all people in USA think that people outside of US don't have 4600 USD or what?
I said ok clowns give me my money back.
and guess what
I got just 4600 but they keep the transfer fees - means they stole my 220 USD......I had to laugh really
am I just a sheep or what ?

Western Union are scumbags, but then so are a good number of the people that use them (scamming on ebay almost always uses WU) :(

Wow, that just sucks, so does Western Union:321GFY :321GFY

That fuckin' blows. I have only used them occassionally but stories like that will keep me away.

I hate WU with a passion. Sent a lot of money to people using WU and now I refuse to. They have to be careful because a lot of people use them for fraudulent purposes.

And yes, $4,600 is a lot of money to send that far of a distance. I would demand to have the fees back.

I will never use fucking Western Union.

Damn that sucks demand your money back in full

that sucks, but come on, what were you thinking? You should have just sent a wire, would have cost you $50 tops and you wouldn't have to deal with any bs...

It is 20$ for a wire regardless of amount...

Egomancer

ok lets say 4600 is enought money but then why they have 6000 USD limit per 1 time transaction?
Also I understand they have to be carefull but I deposit the money in local agents office in cash (local agent is Raiffeisen bank - quite reliable partner to me) - fucking US dollar bills in cash - so where is the problem
they are cocksuckers to me

I needed really fast - no time for wire
I have to go with wire anyway now :pimp

hmmm really bad , yo Nydahl, dood, they really fucked you..
WU Bitches.. I though they're good.. but they're pussy...

that sucks bigtime man...

I have to say that till today I never had any problem with them.
But the fact that they keep the transfer fees without finishing the service they charged for ... its ridiculous

I will say I was the other party in this matter and they treated me like total horseshit as well.

I was notified that the WU was sent a few hours earlier (sent around 5am my time, I was ready to go around 9am my time). I copied out all of the information got my ID's together figured I would bring more than one just in case etc.

Went to the one WU office that I know can payout that sum. Since many places have a payout maximum. I get there fill out the paperwork and hand it to the stupid bitch behind the counter with my ID. She looks at the paperwork then at me then the paperwork and starts typing on her PC. She then says that is a lot of money, how do you know the sender? I tell her that the sender and myself do a lot of business together and have done so over the years. She then asked if I ever met him before. I tell her no, not in person we both work on the internet. Her eye cocks funny and she gives me some stupid look and then says the money is not available, cause nothing is showing with this MTCN. I figure ok fuck there was a typo so I head home to talk to him real quick.

While me and him are chatting I call into WU and check the system with the MTCN he gave. Says the funds are ready. I get his phone number while I am at it just in case. I then head back down there.

Same stupid bitch is at one counter so I go to another. She excuses the person I am talking to and takes over. I give her the information again and she types in the PC again. She then says we can not pay this out. I ask her why and she says it is a fraudulent transaction. So I am like WTF huh? It was paid in cash and sent to me how is it fraud? She then says It has been marked as a fraud and you will have to call WU. I go outside (no bars on cell inside of building) and call. I get someone who transfers me to someone else and then tells me everything is fine. I go back inside and give her the info again and say here WU said it is fine. She takes my shit goes into some back office and then comes back and says we are not paying this out and neither will any other WU location it is fraud. I tell her that I had just talked to them and they said it was OK. She basically calls me a liar and says I did no such thing. I am about ready to pull her hating ass through the little slot in the window. (there is another reason for that bullet proof glass I have found).
I go back outside yet again and call WU. Get transferred around a few times and then eventually get an International WU person. They say they can not pay this out because it was tagged as fraud and they need to speak to the sender first. I say ok I have his phone number can we three way him into this call? The person says no because he is a third party. I am like WTF he is not a third party he sent it. She then says he must answer an email that they sent him because they have no phone number on record. I then ask well can you at least tell me why it was marked fraud, I know he paid in cash to send it to me. She says sir I can not tell you why someone marked it as fraud, it reminded me of some affiliate programs.

I go home yet again and tell him all that went down and that he must answer some email. He asks me what email I gave them. I said I did not give them one and that they said they are sending it to the one he gave. He told me he did not give them an email address. We both decided to say fuck it for the night and try again the next day. He would straighten it out and then resend it but this time break it into smaller multiple transfers.

Well he already explained how they fucked him out of the fee and so on, so we decide that a wire is the best bet.

I am done with WU as a whole. They can kiss my fucking ass and as far as that bitch behind the counter. I am almost 100% positive it was all her fucking doing. I really think she saw the amount, and heard the internet word and decided to fuck us.

do a chargeback

You should stick to bank wires. Western Unions fees are too high.

that really sucks, the WU fees are huge!

WU fees are high, they always hire shit employes (unliek banks) and they just suck period...

They should stick to sending telegraphs (wich they don't since last year)

Yeah the fee's are high and if it was not such a time sensitive issue it would of all started and stayed with wire, which it is now anyways.

Still there is not a single valid reason why they did what they did and fucked him out of his cash to boot.

When most American's think of any part of Europe other than the UK and Paris (not the rest of France, Paris is the only city there to Americans) this is the picture that is envisioned in the mind of what you guys look like:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rkimble...th.visitor.jpg

Sad, but very true.

Never had problems with my Western Union transactions yet. Well, it's all domestic transactions though..

I'd be demanding a full refund of the fees. They couldn't provide the service you've paid for.

Fuck that shit. I'd tell them to give you your fee back too, since they didnt do anything to earn it.

WU can suck a horse cock sometimes (like this one), then again, anymore, its getting real hard to do business in this country at all anymore. In all likelyhood WU is just following some gay rule that came from our Department of Homeland Insecurity that is supposed to prevent terrorism in theroy but in practice only impeedes legitimate business transactions.

Your best bet is to just do wires as suggested or use eGold which dosent have problems with bullshit like this.

this sucks!!! :(