Considering the fact that all you need for sending the money on Moneybookers account is the address of the recipient, it is obviously easy to start money transferring. Well, according to their customers, there are some delays and other difficulties regarding redrawing money from their accounts. There were some reports about customer service inefficiency, and similar complaints.
Anyway, it is still functioning rather well if you aren’t from US, China, Malaysia, Turkey or Israel. If you are, and you are a gambler, you will hardly find any serious reason to have Moneybookers account, since you won’t be able to make any deposits to nline casinos, or any other web pages organizing gambling, including sports gambling.
Promptness
The transactions suppose to be prompt, but it takes some time to verify your address or bank account. There are some delays in customer services responses, according to customers’ testimonies, and it can take some time when redrawing your money to your bank account.
Multiple Currencies
The list of available currencies on Moneybookers is quite long, so everyone can find the currency that suits him the best. Here is the list in alphabetical order:
Australian Dollar
British Pound
Bulgarian Lev
Canadian Dollar
Czech Koruna
Danish Krone
Estonian Koruna
Euro
Hong Kong Dollar
Hungarian Forint
Israeli Shekel
Japanese Yen
Latvia Lat
Lithuanian Litas
Malaysian Ringgit
New Taiwan Dollar
New Turkish Lira
New Zealand Dollar
Norwegian Krone
Polish Zloty
Singapore Dollar
Slovakian Koruna
South-African rand
South Korean won
Swedish Krona
Swiss Franc
Thailand Baht
U.S. Dollar
Security
Like most of e-wallet services, there are some limitations, but the fact is they use Secure Socket Layer technology, which is considered to have high-level security for any transactions. Moneybookers is under UK jurisdiction, and has to apply UK standards in protecting the data and all the transactions made over its’ services. By the way, there is also a possibility of hiding some information about you, and it is an additional advantage for clients.
