I've used western union one time, on a twin turbo motor a guy from sweden purchased. I was very up in the air about doing it, talked to western union people for awhile to make sure that this was all real money, the told me if its in the account # he gave me then the money is there. He has to pay them to have the money in there. I also had him pay the fees. The 2nd half of the money we did a bank transfer. Ended up being a straight up deal and he paid to ship it and all.