Another bank stealth charge!

jonesMUFCforever

rb10 wrote: »

Or a debit card from one of the banks that do not charge.

Do you know of any>?

rb10

jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

Do you know of any>?

There are two mentioned in post 7:

benjus wrote: »

most banks that issue Visa debit cards do make this charge - Nationwide and Halifax being major exceptions.

shoe_girl_2

BOS dont charge................i think.........was a v. long time ago.

rb10

shoe_girl wrote: »

BOS dont charge................i think.........was a v. long time ago.

They still don't.

daveyjp

"Another Bank Stealth Charge"

or

"Another bank customer who doesn't read and understand the T&Cs of the account"

You decide!

Patnyb

I was advised by the lady at travelex that all banks would charge. I know I've ordered money from travelex before online and I'm sure I haven't been charged in the past - I would surely know if I had!

Please can this be made more apparent in the travel money maximiser so that other MSE folks aren't hit with this horrible and utterly pointless charge?

I think it is ridiculous that Lloyds and others can do this - what interest to them is it what I do with my money?!?!?!?! Grrrrr!

nzseries1

I'm with Alliance and Leicester and they never charged me in October last year to buy cash from the post office online.

vet8

My husband bought some currency from the PO last year and paid with his First Direct debit card. For some reason the PO phoned the bank and the bank said it would charge him a currency transaction fee (or something like that).

I thought it was a total rip off. If he had bought £100 of stamps or TV licence or something else his bank would not have charged him. The fact that he bought £100 of currency through the PO is no reason at all for his bank to charge. As far as they are concerned he is paying £100 at the PO, it could be for anything.

patanne

Halifax started charging me last year (after almost 20 years) as a cash withdrawal for paying Vernons by credit card for my pools entry with no warning - they said it was because it is gambling. It obviously became gambling only a year ago - anyone know what it was before then. As I never win I see it more as a charitable donation!!

ShelfStacker_3

Most card companies changed their T&Cs to say that gambling transactions count as cash advances, recently - for the simple reason that they more or less are, and that you could use gambling sites as a way to get interest free money off your credit card.

Gambling transactions on your account don't endear you to a bank, at any rate.