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  • Naf
    Naf Posts: 3,183 Forumite
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    edited 24 July 2025 at 10:14AM
    No, it's a current account...

    Oh, you did mention that. Sorry.
    Then they really should have been able to do it over the counter. Did they give a reason?
    Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
    - Mark Twain
    Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon: no matter how good you are at chess, its just going to knock over the pieces and strut around like its victorious.
  • Naf wrote: »
    Oh, you did mention that. Sorry.
    Then they really should have been able to do it over the counter. Did they give a reason?

    "High value"

    Anyway, armed with the name of the lady in complaints who said it COULD and SHOULD be done, my husband has come home from work and tried again. They tried to tell him it couldn't be done again and he said "ok hold the line my wife is jus going to call x x in your complaints department who assured us this could be done". Suddenly it was "ok that's all in order, just a couple more security questions.... Our security team will call you on the number you've given within 2minutes". This they did and the payment has now been sent.

    Thank heaven for that, untold phone calls and theee visits to two different branches and its done..... Although I do still have to call the mortgage company to check its all gone through correctly......
  • Naf
    Naf Posts: 3,183 Forumite
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    Pleased to hear its sorted. Fraud dept (who must authorise all of these) can be over-zealous & really awkward at times.
    Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
    - Mark Twain
    Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon: no matter how good you are at chess, its just going to knock over the pieces and strut around like its victorious.
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    edited 24 July 2025 at 10:14AM
    Financial Ombudsman are as much use as a chocolate teapot as they say "we can't comment on rules imposed by banks".

    I would have thought that's precisely their role! OP, glad you got this sorted.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
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