How to send a £33,000 bank transfer on a Sunday?
How to send a £33,000 bank transfer on a Sunday?
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Nikki-rwsdl

Original Poster:

1 posts

64 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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I'm looking to view a car on Sunday (Private Sale) and need to transfer over approximately £33,000.

Internet banking and telephone banking have lower limits than this (RBS)

Does anyone know of a way this can be done other than waiting on a weekday and going into a bank branch to make payment?

WillB

248 posts

290 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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I have this quite regularly when selling cars

Easy option is to use another bank account for the balance (husband/wife/partner/relative/trusted friend etc) over the RBS faster payments limit (£20k personal, £50k premier / business)



p4cks

7,489 posts

228 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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I never buy cars in a weekend. These transfers take even longer. Do it on a weekday, trust me

WillB

248 posts

290 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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p4cks said:
I never buy cars in a weekend. These transfers take even longer. Do it on a weekday, trust me
Faster payments work 24/7, makes no difference if a weekday or weekend

CoolHands

23,407 posts

224 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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I’ve had the pleasure of sitting on someone’s settee for a whole Saturday. Just for poxy 4 or 5k (can’t remember exactly). wkers. Don’t do it- all the fking fraud dept s are at home.

CoolHands

23,407 posts

224 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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WillB said:
Faster payments work 24/7, makes no difference if a weekday or weekend
Err until the fraud dept auto checking decide to sideline it as req further checks then you’re screwed

England87

1,997 posts

126 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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Send some money first so it isn’t the first time you’ve sent to that account. This has seemed to have helped in the past since I sat waiting one Saturday for 3k to land in the sellers account.

rfisher

5,063 posts

312 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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Ring the bank and set the payment up in advance, so that they know to expect it.

I've done payments for cars live with the bank security people on the phone while I make the payment via the app.

Or open an account with a bank / building society that lets you transfer up to £200,000 by BACS as long as it's not to a new recipient.

Yorkshire building society will do this.

Just set up the recipient in advance and send them a returnable £200 deposit a few days before you buy.

What's the car?

WillB

248 posts

290 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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CoolHands said:
Err until the fraud dept auto checking decide to sideline it as req further checks then you’re screwed
No, you just call them up, answer the extra security questions and the payment is released

It's usually sorted within minutes, the RBS anti-fraud team are excellent

tight fart

3,575 posts

302 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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Sending a payment first won’t help, only that you both know the acc no’s are correct.
I traveled from London to Blackpool to pick a vehicle up and told Santander first about the expected transfer, made no difference.
I got there and the transfer didn’t work’ called and went through several departments.
In the end the best they could come up with was, try sending £15k and if that works try again with another £15k.
I was buying a Motorhome, the seller agreed that if the 1st £15k went through but the 2nd didn’t, I could stay in the van until it did.
Luckily the 2nd went through.

T5SOR

2,030 posts

254 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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I sent £24k via a Bank Transfer on my phone via the app a few years back. It went through in a few minutes and that was a Saturday.

Not even a call from my bank to ask if it was genuine.

gts.981

136 posts

74 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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T5SOR said:
I sent £24k via a Bank Transfer on my phone via the app a few years back. It went through in a few minutes and that was a Saturday.

Not even a call from my bank to ask if it was genuine.
So what...? the limit is £25k. OP wants to transfer more than this.........

CoolHands

23,407 posts

224 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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WillB said:
CoolHands said:
Err until the fraud dept auto checking decide to sideline it as req further checks then you’re screwed
No, you just call them up, answer the extra security questions and the payment is released

It's usually sorted within minutes, the RBS anti-fraud team are excellent
There’s at least 2 people on this thread with proof that isn’t the case.

LooneyTunes

9,378 posts

187 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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CoolHands said:
WillB said:
CoolHands said:
Err until the fraud dept auto checking decide to sideline it as req further checks then you’re screwed
No, you just call them up, answer the extra security questions and the payment is released

It's usually sorted within minutes, the RBS anti-fraud team are excellent
There’s at least 2 people on this thread with proof that isn’t the case.
Also many let downs with even small payments getting blocked and they sometimes couldn’t even remember whether they were phoning from RBS or NatWest (very reassuring!)... got so bad that I moved my account.

Trouble is that none of the banks are perfect with this sort of thing as they get grief if people aren’t able to make the payments they wish to but hauled through the media if people get scammed and ultimately you won’t know whether it’s going to go through until you try.

anonymous-user

83 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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England87 said:
Send some money first so it isn’t the first time you’ve sent to that account. This has seemed to have helped in the past since I sat waiting one Saturday for 3k to land in the sellers account.
I am with Santander and needed to transfer £8K to my mother to an account I had never sent money to before last week. As soon as I confirmed the transfer online I got a text message asking me if the transfer was genuine and that they would text me again in an hour to confirm.

An hour later I got the text asking to confirm the transfer was genuine, as soon as I replied Y the money was released.

The second time I transferred a similar amount of money to this account it went straight through.

456mgt

2,513 posts

295 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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Different banks have different limits. Citi for example, is 50K

Zoon

7,304 posts

150 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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gts.981 said:
T5SOR said:
I sent £24k via a Bank Transfer on my phone via the app a few years back. It went through in a few minutes and that was a Saturday.

Not even a call from my bank to ask if it was genuine.
So what...? the limit is £25k. OP wants to transfer more than this.........
The limit for faster payments is £25k. Once you go over this it defaults to a standard BACS.
The way around this is to split into two payments of below £25k, in this instance £9k & £24k or whatever combination you like.

biggiles

2,159 posts

254 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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anonymous said:
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Correct: the Faster Payments limit is £250k. Many banks will allow this in a branch, but over an app/phone/website there will probably be lower limits. Lloyds website for example is 25k PER DAY, not per transaction.

OP, the easiest workaround is to use 2 banks or 2 bank accounts to go above your bank's (RBS) chosen limits.

sociopath

3,433 posts

95 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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Sold a car to a dealer for 30k, he had to sit in my house for 3 hours trying to get the bank to release the payment, even though it had been pre authorised.

You can agree all you want with the bank staff but if the anti fraud team gets involved all bets are off.

Zoon

7,304 posts

150 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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anonymous said:
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