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Nationwide card reader: they've gone too far

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Aarrgh!!
I've just tried to transfer some money from my Nationwide flex account into my e-savings account. It is now asking for the card reader for this internal transfer as well!! It is getting to the state where the hassle outweighs the convenience for Nationwide's internet service.
Has anyone else had the same problems? Can anyone name a suitable bank I could move to that doesn't use these bloody things, and has similar benefits to Nationwide, i.e, free cashwithdrawls abroad?
I've just tried to transfer some money from my Nationwide flex account into my e-savings account. It is now asking for the card reader for this internal transfer as well!! It is getting to the state where the hassle outweighs the convenience for Nationwide's internet service.
Has anyone else had the same problems? Can anyone name a suitable bank I could move to that doesn't use these bloody things, and has similar benefits to Nationwide, i.e, free cashwithdrawls abroad?
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Halifax don't
Nuns! Nuns! Reverse!
'I do my job, do you do yours?'
In fact - Nationwide will soon only offer it in Europe.
Have you tried the quick transfer feature (bottom left)?
Thank goodness (Interesting Article (click here) re violence and Card Readers).
Just about to open a new account and won't have any part of this cardreader nonsense.
Card readers don't really add security and the level of 'inconvenience' they cause is roughly proportionate to their use. I'm guessing Nationwide's 'techies' have been banged up in Swindon too long and need to get out more often. In the 'real world', you only get asked for a card reader when making a first-time payment to a payee - not every single bleedin' time thereafter!
Someone in the 'security industry' has sold a crock to certain banks and the others have had the sense to (largely) ignore their salemen's claims.
Chalk and slate csc:D
In the morning tried it again and wasn't asked to use it at all.
I wrote to them complaining that it negated much of the convenience factor fo online banking, as I might want to do a payment at work or when I'm out for the day or on holiday, but the reader is at home so I can't, but got no answer.
I have since found out that the readers from all banks are interchangeable, so now I keep the NW one at home and the Tesco one at work, and can use either one for either bank.