MSE News: Lloyds branch sale to Co-op collapses

kittycatty

Not all customers were informed, my partner wasn't. The only reason we have found out is his bank card was declined 10 mins ago. Logged in to online banking and whoaaaaa different account numbers etc, called them up to find out what the hell was going on to be told, oh we closed your old account etcetc. Problem was he hasn't received anything from them telling him this was happening. Serious complaint i the branch tomorrow.

System

That will be the Torys then?!
You could show your displeasure with the EEC in 2017.

Jaycee_Dove wrote: »

I am another customer messed about by this (been with Lloyds 37 years and bank at my local branch not being sold but registered by them at one where I lived 12 years ago that is/was being sold)....

Perhaps you have to be one of those messed about by the EEC to understand why it effects your judgement on that institution. Like others above I will now not vote for a pro EEC party after this.

[Deleted User]

Article says accounts will be transferred to the "TSB Bank".

Is that the "Trustee Savings Bank Bank" then?

dr_adidas01

billbennett wrote: »

Article says accounts will be transferred to the "TSB Bank".

Is that the "Trustee Savings Bank Bank" then?

That will be a yes!!!!

rb10

billbennett wrote: »

Article says accounts will be transferred to the "TSB Bank".

Is that the "Trustee Savings Bank Bank" then?

Could try to get the name changed when they have an AGM Meeting.

hk88_2

This is why we should love the EU. The beauty of the whole thing is that the EU takes all the !!!! and the MP sitting in Westminster gets all the credit. It is in our interest to break up the banks as customers and taxpayers. Do we really want banks that are too big to fail so they can bankrupt our nation in the next bailout? Do we want no competition in the banking sector so these big banks can charge wtever they want becoz we cant do !!!!?

People need to stop being so short-sighted. The EU is just an easy scape goat for the politicians. It's not a great intuition. But the laws are there to protect their citizens.

Personally I was a bit !!!!ed off that my LTSB accounts will get sold. Well not anymore. But inconvenience is a small price to pay for the greater good, if people even give a !!!! about that these days.

MoneySaverLog

Back to the good old days of TSB then. Wonder if the IPO will be just as profitable this time around?

MoneySaverLog

dr_adidas01 wrote: »

That will be a yes!!!!

They like to say YES!

And they have a set of ready made adverts...

http://youtu.be/OZQExTm92z4

dr_adidas01

MoneySaverLog wrote: »

They like to say YES!

And they have a set of ready made adverts...

http://youtu.be/OZQExTm92z4

Crikey I can remember those adds from my chiildhood. Perhaps they will go back to saying "The Bank that likes to say YES!!"

Jaycee_Dove

Those of you saying love the EEC for creating this try to think about all the innocent customers who are being utterly trodden on by this mess.

I have just spent TWO hours on phone calls going round in circles because nobody at Lloyds TSB has a clue what they are doing.

I have been with Lloyds for 37 years and the 'transfer team' supposedly seamlessly moved my ISA from LLoyds to Lloyds (as in Lloyds branch becoming TSB to Lloyds branch staying Lloyds) but now I am being asked before they will do this to agree in writing that lloyds will deduct 6 months interest because I am closing my Lloyds account and reopening the same account with Lloyds.

Naturally I am not willing to do that without a written guarantee that they will pay the lost interest back the day they take it out (which they say is what they think they will have to do to make it work).

So far I have been shunted from Wales to Scotland to Birmingham to Manchester in an attempt to be advised what to do next.

And I still have a form I am not going to sign agreeing to forego 180 days interest which I will not sign without proof they will reimburse this.

Frankly, the confusion at Lloyds is very worrying. One call centre told me - politely - we will be barred from even seeing the account details of anyone staying at Lloyds in a few days time - so we cannot really do much other than pass you on. Another empathised greatly, said they would put a note on my file and hope that would get someone to take notice and suggested I go and have a cup of tea instead of trying yet another possible number to resolve this farce.

THAT is what the EEC has created. A nightmare for customers who through no fault whatsoever of their own happen to be registered at a branch nowhere near where they now live and bank but that happens to be selling them against their will along with that old branch.