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Bank ' ROBBED ' my 82yr old father
I am soooooooooo mad , my father is 82 and housebound through a disability ( has been for years ) and he has his bank accout for over 40yrs with the same bank.I recently found out that they are charging him £7 a month for some account with the ' benefits ' of a personal shopper , cheap AA cover etc etc All that are no good…
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Alliance & Leicester
Please leave a short message here if you are HAPPY with the services recieved from Alliance & Leicester. Also, please answer the poll.
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HSBC transactions
Just had a terrible talk to someone on the telephone. Yesterday I had an awful time at boots, and put simply the till crashed right after i had put my chip and pin into the machine. the chip and pin said the transaction had been accepted but i did not recieve a reciept and the guy at boots told me it wouldnt go through.…
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Current Account For 3 People
Is it possible to get a current account for 3 people? I have had a look arround at a couple of online banking sites and they on give the facility of a joint account for 2 people. Bapp
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Smile current account
Hello all, I have just changed current account from First Direct to smile. I've always found FD to be extremely efficient, but recently announced HSBC profits angered me so I've gone all ethical and swapped to smile. But I now wonder whether I've done the right thing so hearing about other smile account holders'…
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Time limit on a cheque to come back unpaid
Hi, a work collegue claimed today that he put a cheque in his abbey account.The amount showed as availible, then 2 weeks later,abbey asked for the money back saying the cheque bounced basically.He tried to dispute this and the bank have reffered this to a debt collection agency.I said i'd ask on hear for help for him,does…
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If you were given £100....
...out of the blue, what would you spend it on? Would you save it in a high savings account? A night out? Lottery or scratch cards? Clothes? Treats for the kids? Put it towards your debts? Something for the house maybe? A flutter on the horses? I've not been given £100 by the way (if only!!) I'm just curious!! (maybe abit…
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BOS credits - Now want money back!
Hello I don't know if any of you can help me. I have a Business Account with the Bank of Scotland Over a year ago I found that I was getting some credits that I could not identify. I complained to the bank and they investigated and said that they were payments from the Natwest but that they could not trace them any…
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anyone received from compensation from a&l- not bank charges
i have various gripes against a&l - over the past few months they have: a) sent out my banking details to the incorrect works address which meant they were opened in a central post room & passed around the office b) laughed at me on the phone when i said i couldn't access their website because they had been tinkering…
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£95 for first direct?
Sorry if this has been posted before - just noticed you get £50 for joining them and £45 from quidco, have to pay in £1000 a month salary.
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HSBC Maestro card with £250 cheque limit
Does anyone know or have a HSBC Maestro card with £250 cheque limit. (The standard one, not HSBC Premier) Thanks. :D
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Lloyds & Sky messing me around
Hi, I have never had a bank account with Lloyds until recently. I had my wages and all other incomings paid into my partners account, and all debits also came out of this account. So recently we decided to open a joint account together with Lloyds. We went to our local branch and set the account up. We were assured all…
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Cheap Bank Statements
I was listening to a discussion yesterday about the way banks charge an extortionate amount for statements if you need one. There was a comment that under the Data Protection Act you are entitled to ask for your statements for the last 6 years and all you pay is £10. Has anybody managed to do this?
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Please Help!
Apologies if this is in the wrong place but here's hoping some of you great people could advise me. I am thinking of opening a One Account with Virgin where I will set up my mortgage, loans and credit card from the one account. Does anyone have any views about the One Account? Thanks
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is it a&l or me?
had e mail today from a&l saying website changed and had to choose image and word. did that and both are on website. but when i log into account i can't see all the details- some of words are on top of each other. is it a&l's fault or it is something to do with my browser settings (or whatever)? i have been trying to…
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Buffer zone in your current account?
Assuming that you're not overdrawn, do you try and leave some money in your current account each month as a buffer zone to avoid going overdrawn, or do you run it down to zero before your next lot of money comes in?
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Nationwide sent debit card to wrong address
2 weeks ago I opened a nationwide flex account in a branch in Norwich. I rang yesterday to find out why I hadnt received anything through the post yet. It turns out that the cheque book, debit card and pin number were sent to the wrong address ( my old address as it happens, I moved 8 years ago) I dont know how they got…
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when are banks going to introduce immediate transfers?
I'm sure I read recently that they were being forced to do so - does anyone know the latest? It really gets to me that in 2006 money takes 3 days to trasfer to different accounts!
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Anyone else having troubles with the new Alliance and Leicester Internet Banking?
Alliance and Leicester have now 'improved' the security for the online banking service. I logged in today and it gives you a randomly generated image and you have to make a passphrase for the image. So I did that and clicked OK and waited for 3 mins until the screen went blank. So I go back into it, put my customer ID in…
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Halifax...where do i stand.
Hi there, new poster here! I want to know really where i stand with this situation. I paid a cheque into the bank for 16.25, through the instand deposit as my account does not allow it to be paid over the counter, halifax cardcash for you. However on Saturday i received the cheue back from the bank saying it had not gone…
