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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No, I'm not.Your main point seemed to be that banks are businesses and have a right to charge fees and make money, which is absolutely fine. But how can you defend banks when they make punitive and disproportionate charges? And my point really is to ask why in this techamological age they have to send me a letter which generally gets to me too late to do anything about it. The reason is to make more money from me, plain and simple.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 15:10, 1 reply)
Yes you areDon't go over your overdraft limited - don't get charged GBP30 - profit.
The stories of people being screwed over *by* bank errors are appalling, and those people have the absolute right to be enraged at the banks. But if you end up paying a hundred quid penalty because you're too inept to notice you're spending money that you haven't got and don't have the right to spend, I'm failing to spot the moral problem.
(see: "I only nicked a tenner's worth of stuff from Tesco's, so it's outrageous that I've been fined gbp200 for shoplifting!")
(, Sat 18 Jul 2009, 14:14, closed)
Because it's a penaltyWhy should being £1 over incur such a disproportionate penalty? If I borrowed a pound from you would you demand I pay £90 back? Surely it cannot be hard to set up a system whereby you pay 50% on any extra that comes out of your account? So if you're a pound over you pay £1.50 back, and if you're £100 over you pay £150 back. That way the penalty is proportionate to the ammount. Why can we not do that? Answer: The current system produces maximum profit for the bank.
And for the record the only time this happens is when something comes out of my account before something else has cleared. Yes, it would be nice to have more going into my account but I live in something that I like to call "the real world" and as such that is not a possibility. You seem to be assuming that I'm some airhead who cannot balance his finances, and is wantonly spending money which is not his, which I assure you is not true.
(, Mon 20 Jul 2009, 9:31, closed)
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