Cash transfer

square_bear

I want to buy a present for my wife, but not have the sellers details appear on our bank account.
I can't transfer the cash direct to the company, as the bank won't allow it. I only have the one joint account.
How else can I transfer £ 100 to pay for the goods?

Thanks

eskbanker

Will payment via an intermediary such as PayPal anonymise the transaction sufficiently for you?

square_bear

How do I get the money into Paypal, then?

Or is there another way?

pramsay13

Ask a friend to pay and give them cash. 
Without another account you really don't have many options.

DebtHurricane

You could buy one of the ‘visa’ online debit cards from Tesco where you top it
up, pay in Tesco and it credits the one off card with money. Then purchase online. 

Stuart_W

If you don't have another account can you use cash to buy a gift card for the retailer selling the gift that works online? If not, you'll need to use a one-off prepay card like DebtHurriace says, but there are usually additional costs there. You can get one at the post office (called the prepaid travel money card) but there is a 3% fee (so a card with £100 on costs £103). You'll need ID.

Zanderman

square_bear said:

I want to buy a present for my wife, but not have the sellers details appear on our bank account.
I can't transfer the cash direct to the company, as the bank won't allow it. I only have the one joint account.
How else can I transfer £ 100 to pay for the goods?

Thanks

Why won't the bank allow it?

square_bear

Thanks for the advice. I knew I'd get it from the font of eternal wisdom that is MSE.

square_bear

Zanderman said:

square_bear said:

I want to buy a present for my wife, but not have the sellers details appear on our bank account.
I can't transfer the cash direct to the company, as the bank won't allow it. I only have the one joint account.
How else can I transfer £ 100 to pay for the goods?

Thanks

Why won't the bank allow it?

They told me that paying cash to another bank account, other than my own, was not permitted anymore.
Money laundering, I suppose.

Zanderman

square_bear said:

Zanderman said:

square_bear said:

I want to buy a present for my wife, but not have the sellers details appear on our bank account.
I can't transfer the cash direct to the company, as the bank won't allow it. I only have the one joint account.
How else can I transfer £ 100 to pay for the goods?

Thanks

Why won't the bank allow it?

They told me that paying cash to another bank account, other than my own, was not permitted anymore.
Money laundering, I suppose.

If you're trying to do this in branch, with actual cash, that's the case.
But online, via bank transfer, it isn't.

colsten

Where is the seller located? If they can accept a postal order, you can buy one of these with cash.

Note if not paying by card, preferably credit card, you have no comeback if the goods won't arrive or are damaged.