While I understand paypal, why is it so damn hard to get it via western union?
From where I am to get it into USA it takes Lmost 3 % commission and some bad exchange rates as well
I called local money gram and western union and was surprised by their rates ....both in the order of 3% for just a one way transfer
Unfortunately in Australia you're essentially limited to a verified mt gox account with wiretransfer, or a few other coin swapping services that run around the 6-7% rate and pretty bad exchange rate.
I've been trying to get cash into btc-e rather than mtgox, simply for the fact the buy price tends to be 5-10% lower.