Fuck These Wire Fees



Some of you guys need to grow a pair and tell your AMs you would very much appreciate it if they took care of the wire fees for you. Most will. Theyre not going to go around promoting it and volunteering it, but if you're loyal and making good $ they will. Try and always remember they want your business, they're like a casino host, and willing to give perks if you're earning it.

There are a few networks we work with that only do wires for INTL pubs, so we ask them politely to fedex a check overnight. Just as good as a wire IMO to have your friendly FedEx man banging on your door 9:30am the next morning with the goods.

Exactly. For the most part, networks will gladly eat the $ to overnight an affiliate check via FedEx as opposed to dealing with all the headaches that the banks cause on both sides.

Some networks use wire fees as a profit center - ie, those of you that are complaining about your affiliate network charging $20 - $35 bucks a week for wire is just extra margin for them.
 
I'm in Canada, so I pay around $35 per wire. If I get on average 2 per week, that equals $560 per month. Simple math equals $6720 per year. So ya, I get a little bit pissy having to spend almost $7K a year in wire fees, no matter how much I make.

Dam what bank? I pay nothing on most wires and i'm at TD Bank.
 
I'd rather pay a wire fee and get higher payouts,than have the network eat the fee and lower payouts to cover.
 
Dam what bank? I pay nothing on most wires and i'm at TD Bank.

Wow no 2+2=5 joke?

BMO. I pay $14 per incoming wire plus the $20 fee from the network. Some networks I do volume with waive the fees, but others don't so those payments are about $34 per wire. But the minimum I pay per wire is $14 which still adds up.

How much are your monthly fees at TD? I'm thinking about switching but I like being able to make real-time payments on my USD BMO Mastercard (one phone call to telephone banking and they can pay it off).

From what I remember, TD's USD Visa doesn't have rewards which was a major downside to using their credit cards for advertising.
 
Since I made that original post I've gotten almost all my primary networks on ACH, which is saving me a bunch.
 
We send out an insane amount of wires per week, it'd be way too costly for us to comp all the fees. We offer ACH as an alternative for people that don't want to pay the fee (it only costs us something like .15c) - but the turnaround is longer.
 
You sure? I thought the same thing until I looked closer. COPEAC for instance, takes $20 off the top before they send your wires. It doesn't show anywhere, you just get $20 less than you should have.

So when you do your taxes, how does your net +$20 show up anywhere anyway? you earned the amount that was deposited into your bank account...unless they go digging to where the transaction came from.

does this make sense?

im thinking all you need to do is claim the amount that hits your bank account
 
We send out an insane amount of wires per week, it'd be way too costly for us to comp all the fees. We offer ACH as an alternative for people that don't want to pay the fee (it only costs us something like .15c) - but the turnaround is longer.


its proportional

youre sending an insane amount because you're earning an insane amount.

is company x who earns 10% what you do, better off when their wire fees are 10% of yours?
 
its proportional

youre sending an insane amount because you're earning an insane amount.

is company x who earns 10% what you do, better off when their wire fees are 10% of yours?

ryan eagle takes low margins like walmart.

plus everyone in ewa is on weeklies, probably including the pubs pushing jack.
 
How much are your monthly fees at TD? I'm thinking about switching but I like being able to make real-time payments on my USD BMO Mastercard (one phone call to telephone banking and they can pay it off).

The only downside about TD Bank is that they don't offer real-time payments to USD Credit Cards. So i decided to close down my account cuz they cant offer what I needed. And to make payments on USD BMO Mastercard..you dont even need to call in..You can pretty much go online and transfer the money into your credit card, and im pretty sure is real-time as well. Just an alternative to calling in ...

And BMO only charges $14 per wire. Which is pretty decent...
 
And to make payments on USD BMO Mastercard..you dont even need to call in..You can pretty much go online and transfer the money into your credit card, and im pretty sure is real-time as well. Just an alternative to calling in ...

Man I've tried getting this setup, but these retards at BMO keep telling me conflicting information. For example, I have asked multiple times if they can attach my USD BMO MC to my BMO biz account and some say they can, some say they can't. Some tell me to call BMO Mastercard, some say I need to speak to my branch. I've done it all and finally gave up.

Who did you speak to to get this setup? I have an RM who is a complete ditzy idiot as well so I would have to go through another channel.
 
Glad someone brought this up..

I just contacted my financial advisor at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and he said there are no incoming wire fees there.

Anyone else using them? I've had good service there generally so I'm assuming this'll be the same.

So I'll open another account there and establish a link to Wells Fargo (primary checking).. should save a couple hundred bucks a month. Solid.
 
The people who bank at Chase that get free wire transfers - which bank accounts do you have? Commercial checking, business classic plus?