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What a Bunch of Bankers
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Nov 2015 04:17 |
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Allan | Report | 11 Nov 2015 03:35 |
Well, at least our recent Annual Credit Card Fee of $29.00 has now been refunded :-) |
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Persephone | Report | 10 Nov 2015 20:47 |
That upmarket bank Huia, removed the ATM machine from Huntly not long after we moved here.. It was the only bank missing..the ANZ, BNZ, Kiwi and Westpac all have actual banks plus machines.. costs a $1. if we dare to use one of their machines.. okay we will live we still can do it at Bombay Service Centre on the way North, they have a machine and now it has gone as well. |
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Huia | Report | 10 Nov 2015 06:27 |
I grew up with a bank account with the Auckland Savings Bank. A few years ago they went up-market (I presume) and decided to call themselves the ASB bank (now owned by Australia). About 6 months ago I decided to ask one of the tellers, what do the letters ASB mean? She said it was their name. I tried very hard to get her to tell me that it was the Auckland Savings Bank bank, but she just wouldnt. I think it now stands for Another S***ing B*****d bank. ;-) |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 9 Nov 2015 22:42 |
We now get free accounts as we are pensioners ................ when we opened that account with our daughter as third name earlier this year, the Financial Manager started off by telling us that we had to pay a fee as we already had 2 free Seniors account. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 9 Nov 2015 11:00 |
Stick 'em up Pers. Or rather stick it to them. |
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Persephone | Report | 9 Nov 2015 09:42 |
I am the wise one, amalgamate our accounts and no transaction fees... thank you, then they moved the amount that we had to have as a minimum before fees would be waived. But wait your husband is a member of the accountants society. Fees were waived. I thought that was weird but was happy to accept it. It got raised again but ......... |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 8 Nov 2015 20:17 |
Some years ago when everything went digital and I could do longer speak to bank direct, I argued up hill and down until I visited my branch and informed them in a very loud voice that unless I could have contact with a human voice I was, from that date, withdrawing all my assests and instructing my OH, son and daughter to do the same. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 7 Nov 2015 11:05 |
It is something you have to learn to develop, Dermot, but I think politicians would give anyone a good run for their money as far as thick skins are concerned. |
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Dermot | Report | 7 Nov 2015 10:56 |
Nobody has skin as thick as the local bank manager. |
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wisechild | Report | 7 Nov 2015 07:56 |
I have had my bank account in Spain for around 10 years. " pensions from England are paid in every month & I go in once a month to draw out cash. Several direct debits go out every month. I also have two investment accounts with the same branch of the same bank. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 7 Nov 2015 07:43 |
Twice in my life I've had 'experiences' with banks. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 7 Nov 2015 03:55 |
We find that the tellers on the front desks at the local branch are very helpful. |
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Allan | Report | 6 Nov 2015 22:52 |
Elizabeth, I have always found that the individual bank staff are extremely helpful, particularly at our local branch which is very small. |
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Kay???? | Report | 6 Nov 2015 22:39 |
:-D :-D. |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 6 Nov 2015 22:39 |
When I was growing up banking was a very respectable occupation and I'm sure my in-laws were very content when the young OH went into banking (overseas branches of a UK bank). He retired some ago, but by then the retail type of banking he had always known was becoming dominated by the manic investment bankers. He took a part-time job with a merchant bank but didn't stay long, as he found he was expected to push deals of the kind he said he had always warned his customers against. And now he finds it embarrassing if he has to say he is a retired banker! |
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Allan | Report | 6 Nov 2015 22:14 |
Not enough room, Kay, too many bodies ;-) :-D :-D |
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Kay???? | Report | 6 Nov 2015 22:07 |
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Allan | Report | 6 Nov 2015 22:01 |
AnnC, its just annoying that if we didn't check our statements closely, we could have been paying the fee indefinitely. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Nov 2015 21:52 |
*ankers, as you so rightly say :-D :-D |
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