Cheques for Portman members

baby_boomer

bristolleedsfan wrote: »

nationwide believe that they do offer excellent savings rates. :rolleyes:

Their recent privileged member offerings wouldn't have attracted a second glance from anyone familiar with MSE or Moneyfacts.

They have been a big let down for about a year.

Presumably we can only withdraw money from our Portman accounts when those nice Nationwide people let us know what type of account we hold and its number. I'm not holding my breath :rotfl:.

On a separate matter, the two places I know where there are dual Portman / Nationwide branches, the Portman has the superior facilities - but it is the Portman branch that is to close. In one place, the Nationwide has two counters (down from three after a refurbishment ) whereas the Portman had four, having taken over an ex-Lloyds Bank in a prime location.

Nationwide's focus is probably more on the internet and automated facilities than on old fashioned face to face customer service.

bristolleedsfan

baby_boomer wrote: »

Their recent privileged member offerings wouldn't have attracted a second glance from anyone familiar with MSE or Moneyfacts.

They have been a big let down for about a year.

imo, nationwides savings rates have been a let down ever since it introduced its "windfall signaways", thus guaranteeing itself it wouldnt face a member led conversion challenge nore a hostile bid. :mad:

i cant recall an occasion in the last 10 years where nationwide has had a savings account in the best buy tables.

if anybody wants to be "proud to be different" they can fix for 1 year with nationwide @6.20% gross. :rolleyes:

ex portman members can transact on their accounts from today, the accounts will be closed issue nationwide accounts, formerly portman accounts.

http://www.nationwide.co.uk/savings/portman_rates.htm

our local nationwide branch cashier positions also went down from three to two after a refurbishment, across the road halifax remains three cashier positions.

central bristol portman branch is also much nicer than the two nationwide branches.

baby_boomer

At least Nationwide are better than Britannia. I can't bear to watch the cringe inducing Britannia TV ads or wait for 15 minutes on the dreaded Britannia phone line listening to utter garbage about the "benefits of mutuality" while being told for ever that you are first in the queue for their range of crap accounts.

bristolleedsfan

baby_boomer wrote: »

I can't bear to watch the cringe inducing Britannia TV ads

nationwide and brittannia tv ads. [URL="javascript:add_smilie("][/URL]

baby_boomer

Why do they need to bother? NatWest stupidly does the mutuals' PR for them.

wombat42_2

Nationwide Flexaccount is virtually unique in not charging for foreign ATM or debit card transactions.

bristolleedsfan

baby_boomer wrote: »

Why do they need to bother? NatWest stupidly does the mutuals' PR for them.

big four banks offer a completely different service and appeal to a completely different customer than building societies do, brittannia and nationwide should be comparing themselves with the ex building societies (now plcs as plcs are not the same as banks)

wonder who nationwide will do a [URL="javascript:emoticon(':deal:')"][/URL] with next. :rolleyes:

Building Societies that Nationwide have taken over or merged with:
Albany
Albion Permanent Benefit
Amalgamated General
Amersham District Permanent
Anglia
Anglia Hastings & Thanet
Ascot & District 838th Starr Bowkett
Ashford Mutual
Barnstaple
Barnstaple & North Devon
Berkhamsted District
Berks & Bucks Permanent Mutual Benefit
Berkshire
Bideford
Birmingham Ebenezer
Blaby Neighbourhood Permanent Benefit
Bognor Mutual
Bournemouth Benefit
Bournemouth Hants & Dorset
Bournemouth Working Men's Permanent
Bournemouth & Christchurch
Brentwood
Brighton & Shoreham
Brighton & Southern Counties
British Co-operative
Bromley
Bromley & South Eastern Permanent Investment
Chancery Permanent
Chard & District Mutual
Chelsea District Mutual Benefit
Christchurch & Bournemouth
Church of England
Church Of England Temperance & General Permanent Benefit
Citizens Permanent
Citizens Regency
City Mutual
City of Derry
City of Peterborough Permanent Benefit
City Terminus
Clapham Perseverance
Coleraine
Co-operative Permanent
Cornwall
Country
Court Permanent Benefit
Cranbrook District Mutual
Crewkerne & District Permanent
Darwen & District Permanent
Dover Permanent Benefit
Effra Mutual
Empire Benefit
Esher
Exeter Benefit
Finsbury
General
Gillingham Kent Investment Permanent Benefit
Goldhawk
Goldhawk Mutual Benefit
Great Torrington
Greenwich
Grimsby
Grimsby & Cleethorpes Permanent Benefit
Grimsby & North Lincolnshire
Grimsby & North Lincolnshire Permanent
Hastings & East Sussex
Hastings & Thanet
Hastings Permanent
Herald
Hinckley & Leicestershire
Hinckley South Leicestershire Permanent Benefit
Holloway
Holloway & City Terminus
Home Counties
Institute
Isle of Thanet
Kensington Permanent
Kensington Permanent Benefit
Kent County
Kilburn
Kings Cross & Pentonville Permanent
Kingscliffe
Kingston
Kingsway
Lake District Permanent
Lambeth
Leicestershire
Lombardia Permanent Benefit
London & Midland
London & South of England
London Goldhawk
London Investment
Maidenhead
Maidenhead & Berkshire
Marlborough
Merthyr & Dowlais Permanent Benefit
Metropolitan
Middlesex
Middlesex Mutual
Nationwide
Nationwide Anglia Building Society
Nationwide Building Society
Nineteenth Century
Northampton & Midlands
Northampton Town & County
Northampton Town & County Benefit
Northampton Town & County Freehold Land Society
Northamptonshire Foresters
North Wilts Equitable
North Wilts Ridgeway
Oakleaf
Ore Permanent
Orpington
Paddington
Peckham Permanent
Pentonville & General Permanent Benefit
Perpetual Investment
Piccadilly Permanent
Portman
Portman Wessex
Ramsbury
Ramsgate Cinque Port Permanent Benefit
Regency
Regency & West of England
Reliant
Richmond Mutual
Ridgeway
Rock (Llanelly) Permanent
Royal Benefit
Scottish Amicable
Seaford & District Mutual
Sevenoaks District Mutual
Sheerness & Gillingham
Slough & Eton Benefit
South of England
South West Middx
South West Middx Mutual Benefit
South Western
Southampton & South Hants
Southern Co-operative Permanent
Staffordshire
St. James
St. Martins le Grand
St. Pancras
Stockwell Permanent Reddish
Sussex Mutual
Swanage & Isle of Purbeck
Temple Bar
Thames Estuary
Tunbridge Wells Permanent
Twickenham
Twickenham, Teddington & District Mutual
Uckfield Permanent Benefit
Ulverston Temperance Permanent
United Friends Perpetual Benefit
Wallingford District Permanent
Wandsworth
Watford & West Herts Permanent Benefit
Wellingborough Town District Permanent Benefit
Wessex
West of England
West Hove
West Lancashire
West London Investment
Western Counties
Western Equity Permanent Mutual Benefit
Westminster
Whitehall
Wigan Permanent
Willesden
Wilts & Western Benefit
Winchester City & District Mutual
Windsor & Eton
Woburn Sands Permanent Benefit
Wolverton (Bucks) Permanent Benefit
Worcester Housing & Savings Society

baby_boomer

Is that all ?

baby_boomer

Is that all ?

More than one a year!

bristolleedsfan

baby_boomer wrote: »

Is that all ?

u could have at least thanked me for a usefull post. [URL="javascript:add_smilie("][/URL]