BanksYour Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."
So, tell us your banking stories of woe.
No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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Can't pay money in.The Missus and I have our joint account with the Halifux (I like that term for them - I'm keeping it). Shortly before we got married, we had amassed a few hundred quids worth of pound coins in one of those Terramundi pot things (think piggybanks for grown ups). Naturally we thought it would be sensible to pay this into the account to help pay for the wedding, honeymoon and stuff. We duly got some of those special bags, and counted up each one with the correct value of coinage and trotted off to the bank.
After queueing up we approached the cashier, and informed him of our intent to add the coinage to our account. The resulting conversation went as follows:-
HIM: "Sorry, you can't do that."
US: "What? Why?"
HIM: "There is a limit of six bags you can pay in at any one time."
US: "... You're a bank."
HIM: "You could go to the Post Office and convert it to notes, and then pay it in."
US: "So you want us to go queue up somewhere else, then come back and queue up again, just so we can pay money into our account?"
HIM: "We really don't have space in our safe for the money otherwise."
US: "You're a BANK."
In the end we did go to the Post Office, and converted the bags of sterling into Euros, all ready for the Honeymoon. Now we're married, and despite numerous requests Halifux still haven't changed the Missus' surname on the joint account. They really are useless.
(, Sat 18 Jul 2009, 12:48, 3 replies)
Click!!Because they are.. (voice of experience..I may post some of the stories!)
(, Sat 18 Jul 2009, 17:27, closed)
The magic words are:'Then I'd like to close my account please.'
Amazing the effect it has.
(, Sun 19 Jul 2009, 14:55, closed)
In the run up to the wedding?Really didn't have the time or inclination to do that, what with the transferring of bills and signing up for a new account elsewhere etc. Now we've gone passed it and they still haven't changed the name on the account (two months later) that's exactly what we're doing this week. :)
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 8:59, closed)
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