I thought I’d share my experiences with Xoom.com. I was looking for a cost-effective way to send money here to the Philippines from the States. I created an account and used it a time or two–it worked as advertised.
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Earlier in 2012 I frequently used Xoom.com to send small amounts of money to friends and family in Philippines, but then one day I was locked out of my Xoom account and was notified by Xoom Customer Review that I was violating the terms of agreement. I asked them how was I doing that as I was simply wiring money to friends and family, but they could not answer me. They just said it seems my reasons for sending money were wrong. I think they assumed I was paying for online webcam services just because I sent small amounts to different persons in the Philippines. I explained I was sending money to help friends and family for whatever reasons as is normally done in life, but that wasn’t good enough for Xoom. They told me to seek other ways to send money. After months of not using them I needed to send money to my wife stuck at the Naval base in Biliran so I tried to wire 100USD via Xoom to help her out, but Xoom refused. I finally used Western Union with no problem. Xoom absolutely SUCKS! In this day of desperate business conditions they should not turn away customers but they sure do. May they go bankrupt and disappear! I will not shed a tear!
I haven’t had any problems with them so far.