Paying for overseas competition entries

[gaw]

Does anyone know of the best (cheapest, easiest) online way to pay for entries to an overseas competition?
I'm looking to enter the JWOC Tour

[Big Jon]

Try to get the organisers to accept payment in cash on arrival. It usually works for smaller less bureaucratic events.

[ianandmonika]

Depends on the standard of the event. Unless its a big event, we have generally emailed the organiser and agreed to pay cash on arrival at the event.

[EddieH]

If they don't budge, I have always bought the cash here and posted it. I must have done this about 40 times and sent cash to all sorts of countries. It has never been a problem and if an organiser ever failed to receive it I'd be quids in over the years paying again versus the bank charges i would have accrued.

[m4rk]

I've just entered for jwoc tour using HIFX: https://www.hifxonline.co.uk/Payments/Account/Login/default.aspx

Fee was £9 - which may seem like a lot but I've definitely paid £20 in the past.

[HarryO]

Interesting - don't these events take credit cards? Or is that the fee you're discussing? I have never O'ed abroad - paying for the event wasn't one of the many obstacles I had envisaged!

[Spookster]

Interesting - don't these events take credit cards?

Increasingly they do, but many still don't. It's the £20-£30 international bank transfer fee that is the problem.