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[Closed] Cheapest way to cash/pay-in small value dollar cheques (< $30)

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I get some stock dividends which amount to around $50 in total a year. Usually two cheques a year for around $26 each. Does anyone know the cheapest way to cash these in please?

Reinvestment via the broker is not an option unfortunately 🙁


 
Posted : 09/05/2018 11:54 am
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It's been quite a few years since I did this, and my checks at the time were more like $1500/year but...

Cheapest way to do it then was using a Citibank dollar account and Transferwize.


 
Posted : 09/05/2018 1:22 pm
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Looking like Metrobank let you cash them for nothing. Going to try that route first.


 
Posted : 09/05/2018 1:31 pm
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Thinking aloud: small numbers of ASDAs do Forex at good rates; I wonder if they would accept an endorsed cheque?


 
Posted : 09/05/2018 4:43 pm
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They may, but not enough to tempt me to drive to my nearest ASDA on the off chance 🙂


 
Posted : 10/05/2018 10:18 am
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Years ago, Barclays used to do them with no fee if they're under $50. But that was around 2000ish when I last did that.

Can they pay to an account instead of sending cheques (sorry 'checks' in American 😀 )? You could get a US$ account to get paid into and either transfer with exchange rate to a UK account or just buy things in dollars with it.


 
Posted : 10/05/2018 11:31 am
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It's a dividend cheque, so there are basically no humans I can speak to and change things. All the accounts I've seen that accept cheques charge a processing fee so that's out.


 
Posted : 10/05/2018 6:37 pm

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