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  • If it was that easy, we'd all be living it up on the Santander 123 accounts :D
  • colsten
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    If it was that easy, we'd all be living it up on the Santander 123 accounts :D
    What if we all got together and petitioned them? Surely they will listen to their customers? Don't they need us more than we need them? As consumers, we must be holding all the cards? 
  • RG2015
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    colsten said:
    If it was that easy, we'd all be living it up on the Santander 123 accounts :D
    What if we all got together and petitioned them? Surely they will listen to their customers? Don't they need us more than we need them? As consumers, we must be holding all the cards
    Got lots of debit and credit cards if that helps.  :)
  • Zanderman
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    edited 14 July 2020 at 6:02PM
    RG2015 said:
    colsten said:
    If it was that easy, we'd all be living it up on the Santander 123 accounts :D
    What if we all got together and petitioned them? Surely they will listen to their customers? Don't they need us more than we need them? As consumers, we must be holding all the cards
    Got lots of debit and credit cards if that helps.  :)
    So have we - but I think Santander probably hold all the trump* cards.

    (*that's trump in the traditional sense, not the dangerous orange madman sense) 
  • polymaff
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    Zanderman said:
    RG2015 said:
    colsten said:
    If it was that easy, we'd all be living it up on the Santander 123 accounts :D
    What if we all got together and petitioned them? Surely they will listen to their customers? Don't they need us more than we need them? As consumers, we must be holding all the cards
    Got lots of debit and credit cards if that helps.  :)
    So have we - but I think Santander probably hold all the trump* cards.

    (*that's trump in the traditional sense, not the dangerous orange madman sense) 
    Depends what you mean by traditional. To a Yorkshire man, a Trump is the act of breaking wind. ... ;)
  • Zanderman
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    polymaff said:
    Zanderman said:
    RG2015 said:
    colsten said:
    If it was that easy, we'd all be living it up on the Santander 123 accounts :D
    What if we all got together and petitioned them? Surely they will listen to their customers? Don't they need us more than we need them? As consumers, we must be holding all the cards
    Got lots of debit and credit cards if that helps.  :)
    So have we - but I think Santander probably hold all the trump* cards.

    (*that's trump in the traditional sense, not the dangerous orange madman sense) 
    Depends what you mean by traditional. To a Yorkshire man, a Trump is the act of breaking wind. ... ;)
    Information that brings a whole new meaning to that song about Nellie the Elephant - "off she went with a trumpity trump, trump, trump, trump..."
  • DiamondLil
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    polymaff said:

    Depends what you mean by traditional. To a Yorkshire man, a Trump is the act of breaking wind. ... ;)
    As it is to a Derbyshire lad. :D


  • EarthBoy
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    polymaff said:

    Depends what you mean by traditional. To a Yorkshire man, a Trump is the act of breaking wind. ... ;)
    As it is to a Derbyshire lad. :D


    Most people in Britain know what trump means, it's not peculiar to certain regions.  When I was growing up f a r t was regarded as a rude word, so you'd say trump instead. 
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