Barclays - Cash Crisis!

stclair

Kervyn_Ming wrote: »

Barclays are running out of cash - it's official.

THey are no longer filling cash machines in the Thames Valley, I have heard from a friend who works for the company that fills the machines. THe first machines to run out are likely to be in Oxford, Reading and High Wycombe.

Apparently their suppliers were getting tired of missed and late payments and put a stop on them.

If I had an account with Barclays I'd think very carefully!

The only thing ive noticed is barclays seem to a have a lack of £10.00 notes in there machines the past few weeks.

I used 6 different machines in a barclays branch the other day and not one of them had £10.00 notes in :mad:

This was a very similar story for Natwest too over the past few weeks.

rb10

stclair wrote: »

The only thing ive noticed is barclays seem to a have a lack of £10.00 notes in there machines the past few weeks.

I used 6 different machines in a barclays branch the other day and not one of them had £10.00 notes in :mad:

Same here, no £10 notes in the Barclays machines!

(And actually, it was fairly close to the Thames Valley, as the first post said!)

izools

Anyone got a cashpoint near them with £5 note in them?

They are damn useful. There's one near me from HSBC happily dishes out a fiver if you pop in the amount manually

flexrider

Kervyn_Ming wrote: »

Barclays are running out of cash - it's official.

THey are no longer filling cash machines in the Thames Valley, I have heard from a friend who works for the company that fills the machines. THe first machines to run out are likely to be in Oxford, Reading and High Wycombe.

Apparently their suppliers were getting tired of missed and late payments and put a stop on them.

If I had an account with Barclays I'd think very carefully!

thanks for that but hold can a multi billion pound bank be running out of money just because you could not get a tenner out of the machine...bizarre!

also check the stocks and capitial investments data online, there making a fortune so i find that statement hard to beleive.

stclair

rb10 wrote: »

Same here, no £10 notes in the Barclays machines!

(And actually, it was fairly close to the Thames Valley, as the first post said!)

Im in the north west and ive experienced this issue with a few barclays branches now over the past few weeks.

So i suspect there may be an element of truth or just coincidence in OPs comments.

stclair

flexrider wrote: »

thanks for that but hold can a multi billion pound bank be running out of money just because you could not get a tenner out of the machine...bizarre!

also check the stocks and capitial investments data online, there making a fortune so i find that statement hard to beleive.

The bank is not running out money however there machines are, as there appears to be a dispute between barclays and the company who fills there machines

stclair

PNPSUKNET wrote: »

the banks fill their own, looser

Not all bank or branches fill there own machines.

They use someone like G4S to fill them.

hippey

I might start printing my own money just in case.

lordash

izools wrote: »

Anyone got a cashpoint near them with £5 note in them?

They are damn useful. There's one near me from HSBC happily dishes out a fiver if you pop in the amount manually

Ironically enough, the two Barclays ATMs at uni give out nice crisp fivers, but you do have to type in the amount. Yesterday, the shop I work in ran out of fivers and almost out of £1 coins, so I had to go to the cash machine and draw out £200 worth of fivers because the bank was closed.

There used to be a lloyds one as well, which didn't give out £20s - just £10 and £5. Everytime it ran out of £10, it used to give you all the money in £5, one time withdrew £100 and got a massive wad of £5 notes from the machine!