[bisq-network/bisq] Wester Union restricted to the same country (#2922)

Steve Jain notifications at github.com
Wed Feb 19 21:46:51 UTC 2020


> I've tried a similar scenario and the problems seems to lie with Bisq.

Yes, this seems to be the case, as the transfer went fine. 

Feedback from this experience indicate the following:

- there is no need to specify receiver's city, just country
- there should be no need to specify currency in the payment account, since the whole point of Western Union is to work internationally regardless of currency
  - exception: countries with currencies in which Western Union has no presence in (a list should be made; but I assume most major countries are included)
- the trade protocol for Western Union currently requires payment sender to _email_ a copy of the receipt to the receiver...surely this can be changed, since trader chat is now available?
- fees are stupid high, obscene, and exorbitant (all at the same time)

With that said, Western Union's online bank-to-bank service seems to have a totally different fee structure (much more reasonable), and it might have potential as a new payment method...will investigate it over the next few days and open a new thread if it's worth adding to Bisq.

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