Paying Tonkin?
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Paying Tonkin?
We've arranged our Vietnam hotels/drivers/guides through Tonkin Travel. They've offered us two options for paying the $500 deposit:
1- You can pay us by bank transfer to our account in VietNam, 30USD bank fee
will be plused
2- You can pay us by credit card, I will send you a credit card payment
form, you will fill in and sign in and resend with copy of card holder's
passport + 02 sides of credit card, 3% bank fee will be applied for Visa or
Master and 4% for Amex card.
We went to our credit union and they charge $35 for the bank transfer, so that's $65 in fees for the deposit. Seems very steep. I've been reluctant to send (email? fax?) the credit card info.
Anyone have experience with this? What do you recommend?
Thanks,
1- You can pay us by bank transfer to our account in VietNam, 30USD bank fee
will be plused
2- You can pay us by credit card, I will send you a credit card payment
form, you will fill in and sign in and resend with copy of card holder's
passport + 02 sides of credit card, 3% bank fee will be applied for Visa or
Master and 4% for Amex card.
We went to our credit union and they charge $35 for the bank transfer, so that's $65 in fees for the deposit. Seems very steep. I've been reluctant to send (email? fax?) the credit card info.
Anyone have experience with this? What do you recommend?
Thanks,
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We paid by credit card (two years ago), using the process Tonkin outlined in your #2. It worked fine for us--no issues. I photocopied the card and passport and sent Tonkin the copies as PDFs attached to an email. Naturally I was nervous about this but it worked fine--no issues. As a matter of course we do check our credit card statements every month to make sure there are no erroneous charges.
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We've used them twice. Paid by credit card both times without any problems at all. Using a credit card also comes in handy if any of your pre-paid activities are cancelled and they need to issue a refund.
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