Withdrawing 5K from my bank account

ajaxgeezer

zebidee1 wrote: »

My son is also buying a car today and after seeing this thread I told him to call to tell A&L he will be needing to take £3K out of his account.

CS girl told him he didn't need to call in advance and just to go into the branch as usual, no notice needed and it wasn't a problem. Hope she got this right. :rolleyes:

.... sorry to be the one to say this, but I called A&L last year the day before I wanted to withdraw £4k cash and was told the same as you - "not a problem, just go to the branch". However on getting to the branch, I was told "no chance" and behind the scenes talks had to go on to allow me to go and collect it from a post office. That's one of the 417 reasons I'm not with A&L any more.

Hopefully your experience will be different.

Jennifer_Jane

Enjoy your new car and thanks to all the people who replied to you with useful information for the rest of us. Thanks, I didn't know about the cash thing. My only experience with using my debit card 'unusually' ie I went twice to the supermarket to buy things and get £50 cashback each time to pay someone cutting some trees down, and my card was stopped for unusual activity!

zebidee1

ajaxgeezer wrote: »

.... sorry to be the one to say this, but I called A&L last year the day before I wanted to withdraw £4k cash and was told the same as you - "not a problem, just go to the branch". However on getting to the branch, I was told "no chance" and behind the scenes talks had to go on to allow me to go and collect it from a post office. That's one of the 417 reasons I'm not with A&L any more.

Hopefully your experience will be different.

Son got his cash out no problem thankfully. I now think it's probably best to err on the side of caution and always phone in advance, just in case.

Especially after hearing of your experience.