Can't get a Nationwide Flex! What Next?

CloudRuler

ug02070 wrote: »

I just wanted the standard debit card but she worried me by asking whether I wanted the visa one, as the visa can be used in all visa atm's and the standard one cant be used in many by the way she sounded.

It does say on their website that they can refuse to upgrade you to a debit card if your existing account has been open less than 7 months. So if you were trying to open a new flexaccount and get the debit card with it then it seems pretty standard for them to refuse on that basis but they should still have permitted you to open a cashcard flexaccount.

abacab

The flex account card can be used in most Atms abroad wherever the cirrus symol is displayed..
The only ones I've found they can't is the free standing type in in grocery stores ect.
You get currency at the Visa exchange rate,just got back from florida and I was getting just under 2 dollars to the £ these last 2 weeks.
Compare that to high street rates of around $1.86

ug02070 wrote: »

I just wanted the standard debit card but she worried me by asking whether I wanted the visa one, as the visa can be used in all visa atm's and the standard one cant be used in many by the way she sounded.

photome

torbrex wrote: »

Same way as I did, high street travel shop or post office.

I guess if you are happy doing it that way then go ahead, BUT you were charged, maybe not directly (commission)but through a lower exchange rate. That is not the best way to get travel money, a non fee and no foreign loading debit card is. simple really

As viking pointed out the difference in the bank rate and tourist rate for euros. I have just been to the states I was getting $1.98 from the ATM when the tourist rate was around $1.89