and 3's tinfoil nonsense that you've made up.
I only wish this were true.

Have a look through the public records of the number of CCJ that banks have against them that are STILL unsettled - and have a look at the reasons.

You will find, for example, instances where people have withdrawn £5000 from a cashpoint machine, wheras in fact the amount is 500 or even 50, they have refused to refund the money, been taken to court and still blatently ignored the will of the court and still refuse to pay the money back. There are quite a few instances of this.

I personally know of three occassions (all within a mile or two of where I live) where large sums of cash have just 'got lost in the system'.

You continue to believe that I'm making it up if you please, I'm not offended, I just pity those that cannot see it or be bothered to look depite all the evidence being in the public domain.

...as for 2) - I'm not all that bothered about them trying to sell stuff, I am bothered about the way in which they engineer 'defaults' and then abuse the system to maximise the amount they can extract from you without actually providing any product or service. It's far more profitable to be underhand.

I too thought at one point, that it must be paranioa - until my account was frozen every Friday morning and not unfrozen until the following Monday - every week for nearly a year.

It was then that I was informed by (someone who, and I know how this sounds, I am unable to mention) that this sort of thing is commonplace. It's petty and underhand, and it does go on.

At one point, I co-funded a BBC program in which a 'spy' was placed inside Barclays. Lots of this sort of stuff was uncovered.
(dchurch bah, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 9:52, Reply)