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Nationwide Nightmare
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I managed to speak to someone useful this morning and not the regular call centre drone.
We'll hope that your attitude to the person concerned was less condescending than your posts would indicate?0 -
'nightmare' resolved by phone call.
Not that I like nationwide but a bit of proportionality required?Left is never right but I always am.0 -
Wonder what the OP would call an actual nightmare0
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..or borrow a bicycle.
Well quite, only 25-30 mins by bicycle and you'll be able to "park" right outside.I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
Archi_Bald wrote: »Wonder what the OP would call an actual nightmare
Well quite.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
In one person's nightmare, they are tied to a chair and forced to watch their wife and child be eaten by a two-tonne spider...
In another's, they are paralysed on an operating theatre table, about to be sliced open but unable to communicate to the surgeon that the sedative didn't work and they can feel everything...
In another's, they have to flee across a crocodile-infested river to escape a blood-drenched clown who wields a machete and threatens to commit a sexual assault upon them - and they've forgotten how to swim...
In another's, they are waiting at an airport, and the Easyjet flight to Gatwick that they're patiently waiting for is carrying a short delay.
I suspect the OP is like that last sort of person, with whom I had the pleasure of waiting, a few months ago.
"I woke up in a cold sweat this morning, having dreamt I would need to visit a bank branch to take money out of my account, which was only resolved after calling the customer service desk a second time and receiving the correct advice".
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For me, a nightmare is between dreaming that I fall down the cliffs of a gorge 10 times deeper and steeper than the Grand Canyon and thisbowlhead99 wrote: »flee across a crocodile-infested river to escape a blood-drenched clown who wields a machete and threatens to commit a sexual assault upon them - and they've forgotten how to swim...
No UK Building Society or ISA pass books involved in either scenario. May be I lack imagination?0 -
Hang on a minute... I think you guys have gone off at a tangent and are unfairly judging the OP by your own standards.
The simple facts are:
1) The OP opened a postal savings account
2) This was done for convenience
3) Due to their own life schedules and complications
4) Nationwide took over Cheshire BS
I do not believe it is unrealistic to expect the NW to either honour the existing T&Cs or to provide savers with the option to close / transfer the account under the terms which they opened the account as part of the transfer process.
Sooooo.....
..... to you grumpy lot. Personal Responsibility - Sad but True
Sometimes.... I am like a dog with a bone0 -
Hang on a minute... I think you guys have gone off at a tangent and are unfairly judging the OP by your own standards.
The simple facts are:
1) The OP opened a postal savings account
2) This was done for convenience
3) Due to their own life schedules and complications
4) Nationwide took over Cheshire BS
I do not believe it is unrealistic to expect the NW to either honour the existing T&Cs or to provide savers with the option to close / transfer the account under the terms which they opened the account as part of the transfer process.
Sooooo..... ..... to you grumpy lot.
As you rightly comment, cloud_dog: no nightmare in sight. :cool:0 -
Hang on a minute... I think you guys have gone off at a tangent and are unfairly judging the OP by your own standards.
The simple facts are:
1) The OP opened a postal savings account
2) This was done for convenience
3) Due to their own life schedules and complications
4) Nationwide took over Cheshire BS
I do not believe it is unrealistic to expect the NW to either honour the existing T&Cs or to provide savers with the option to close / transfer the account under the terms which they opened the account as part of the transfer process.
Sooooo..... ..... to you grumpy lot.
A fair point. Sorry opLeft is never right but I always am.0
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