Hooray! A full account!

hopefulfooluk

At last, I've managed to get a normal account with Maestro card. Guess who obliged?

Natwest!

I was given a Current Plus account with Servicecard 100, which is a Maestro debit and £100 cheque guarantee. They even offered me £1000 overdraft (which of course I turned down).

Thank you very much Natwest, I'll now be able to tell Halifax where to go with their Electron and lack of any kind of "customer care".

:-)

Robert_Sterling_3

If I were you I would forgo the pleasure of telling the Halifax where to go. Frying pans and fire come to mind. However I am not you.

hopefulfooluk

Well, that was painless. Got my chequebook and card through yesterday, online banking all up and running, transferred all my DD's and SO's already and withdrew all but a penny from my Halifax account.

Very happy to have a decent account (one that you can withdraw cheques on the 4th day after paying them in, compared to the halifax's seven working day absurdity).

And I bought petrol with my debit card for the first time in years yesterday!

Thanks, Natwest. I will stay with you for a long time for the way you've treated me.

Robert_Sterling_3

I have stayed with the NatWes for decades.
I only have about a £1 in there most of the time.
I changed to Halifax about 20 years ago.
Now:-
Halifax Current account  3.0%
Natwest Current Account 0.10% or less
Halifax 2900% better than Natwest on this basis.

realaledrinker

Each to his own.

There are several on-line current accounts better than Halifax, with linked savings accounts, that come to mind. smile for instance.

deemy2004

Smile may be good but their parent company - Co-op is the WORST bank you could imagine !

funkymonkey

i must say you are the first person i have seen saying a bd thing about co-op. i am thinking fo mooving to smile in the next few days. can you elaborate on why their parent company is not so good?