Whenever I have to visit my bank these days for any kind of meeting, I always add that i'm considering switching my ISA and share portfolio to their product, and would like a few leaflets. As a result, i'm usually offered a cup of tea and a five minute wait on the plush leather sofas reading the FT and feeling very self important, before I go in to grovel with the manager about increasing my student overdraft. Often they capitulate quickly to my demands in order to get to talking about my ISA, at which point i fob them off, take a few leaflets and promise to call. Works a charm, the greedy little monkeys; just need to make them think they're the ones in control.
(Roopy all is not what it seams, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 14:09, Reply)