BanksYour Ginger Fuhrer froths, "I hate my bank. Not because of debt or anything but because I hate being sold to - possibly pathologically so - and everytime I speak to them they try and sell me services. Gold cards, isas, insurance, you know the crap. It drives me insane. I ALREADY BANK WITH YOU. STOP IT. YOU MAKE ME FRIGHTED TO DO MY NORMAL BANKING. I'm angry even thinking about them."
So, tell us your banking stories of woe.
No doubt at least one of you has shagged in the vault, shat on a counter or thrown up in a cash machine. Or something
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 13:15)
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The staff of the Exeter campus branch of NatWorstare a particularly useless bunch of cunts, in my experience - yourself presumably excluded :-)
I'm only slightly spoiled and rich, so I had to go and open a student account in said branch. Only to be told I couldn't, because I'm a foreigner and so I could only get the basic, no-frills current account. For which they then demanded an unreasonable and bizarrely specific amount of paperwork to prove I was who I said I was. Brilliantly, the guy then tried to sell me a credit card, with the argument that even if I didn't use it, it would be good to *have* one to establish a credit history. I went along with that - and the application was rejected.
Oh, that particular filthy-foreigners account also had the brilliant feature that, in order to get any overdraft at all (not interest-free because it's not the student account) you have to *deposit* £5k first. Er, missing the point of an overdraft slightly?
Still, once I saw the light and got an account with Nationwide instead, walking into the Natwest branch and closing the account was quite satisfying.
Why don't I know any of those proper, daddy's-gold-card, rich brats then? I wouldn't mind someone with more money than sense to extract some of said money from...
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