Wise

Wise allows a person to transfer money abroad fast and securely, at a much more favourable exchange rate than my bank allows. Indeed, in my case, Wise offers a much lower fee also.

Below is a comparison between my bank and Wise when wishing to send £1,000 to the E.U. all made at the same time.

A quote from my bank


A quote from Wise


Exchange rate from Google

As you can see the quote from Wise is significantly better by almost €40. My bank doesn't even charge a fee for payments in Euros so it shows just how bad the exchange rate they use is.

Special Offer

If you sign up using my referral link then Wise will even waive their fee on the first £500 (or equivalent¹) you transfer², saving you even more money. You must use the referral link or you'll miss out, like I did. Oops.

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¹ For example: if 100 units of currency A is equivalent to £50 then the fee will be waived for A1,000. If 100 units of currency B is equivalent to £200 then the fee will be waived for B250.
² Same-currency transfers excluded.

Correct at time of writing. Always do your own due diligence. Caveat emptor. Last updated 3/10/2022.

References

• https://wise.com/help/articles/2666686/wise-referral-terms (Retrieved 3/10/2022)

YouGov

YouGov wants to know what you think. Your opinions matter. So much so that they will pay you for them.
It is their opinion polls you hear on the BBC, and others. You may have already heard of YouGov, especially around election time.

There are other paid survey sites, but YouGov has outlived them all, and pays consistently within a few business days (once the payout limit is reached and requested).

And, yes, you'll even get a nice little top-up of £2 per referral once they complete six surveys.

YouGov specialises in market research and opinion polling through online methods. The company's methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of Internet users, and then weighting these responses in line with demographic information. It draws these demographically-representative samples from a panel of over 8 million people worldwide. ~ Wikipedia

U.K. only.

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