COUTTS Bank - how much to be a customer?

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Where I work, someone came in once with a Coutts card wanting to buy some stuff. He was waving his card around asking "do you take this?" (it was a standard mastercard), to which i replied "yeah, i've got one of those and use it here all the time... except i get my one for free from natwest "... he wasn't best pleased.

Aegis

cifpower wrote: »

http://www.coutts.com/productsandservices/new-fees.asp

Here are the fees

There are a lot of fees there, aren't there? Sounds like a bloody expensive way to do your banking!

withnell

Aegis wrote: »

There are a lot of fees there, aren't there? Sounds like a bloody expensive way to do your banking!

Well you're paying dso phones are answered when you call, if you're promised a call back you'll get one..

Also tax planning advice etc, so even with a £600 fee if they save you £1000 its worth it

[Deleted User]

withnell wrote: »

Well you're paying dso phones are answered when you call, if you're promised a call back you'll get one..

Er... sounds like first direct... and i dont pay them a cent

ShelfStacker_3

billbennett wrote: »

Er... sounds like first direct... and i dont pay them a cent

I was just thinking the same thing.

I've seen the oh-so-special Coutts cards. They look like someone threw up on them. Give me First Direct, HSBC Plus or even RBS' Cashline Plus cards (like the CP, it's a pretty blue colour and that's good enough for me) over that.

FWIW as a shop cashier I always used to make a little bit of a joke of it if a Coutts card was presented. Never had someone try and wave it around to big themselves up (although this was Waitrose, they didn't really need to... )

withnell

How much more interest do First Direct pay on their current account over Coutts then? Coutts don't charge a fee if your account balance is over 10k, and you can also walk in and talk to anyone, and plus the access to full investment and tax advice

There's a reason that the rich only ever get richer, good quality advice from wealth management experts!

Inactive

withnell wrote: »

There's a reason that the rich only ever get richer, good quality advice from wealth management experts!

Perhaps they may consider moving these " wealth management experts " to the boardroom of the parent company.:rolleyes:

Extant

Inactive wrote: »

Perhaps they may consider moving these " wealth management experts " to the boardroom of the parent company.:rolleyes:

You do know you've already made such a comment in this very thread already, right?

ShelfStacker_3

BarclaysManager wrote: »

You do know you've already made such a comment in this very thread already, right?

He's made such a comment in pretty much every thread, tbh...

Inactive

BarclaysManager wrote: »

You do know you've already made such a comment in this very thread already, right?

So..? I was responding to a different poster, no law against that is there?