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HSBC
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LLoyds TSB
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Barclays
12.20%
Natwest
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Halifax
12.20%
Other
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Building Society
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Old 15-08-2006, 08:15 PM
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Default BANKS...who do you use and why.

As title, any problems with banks??

Good or bad interest rates?




Ran out of option space so post if its OTHER.
Old 15-08-2006, 08:17 PM
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personally i'm with halifax/BOS but you didnt make that an option

no prob's for me
Old 15-08-2006, 08:20 PM
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Lloyds for me, and never had any probs
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Now you've changed the options making my post above look silly
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Lloyds for me, no problems.



Originally Posted by Lambchop
Now you've changed the options making my post above look silly
Old 15-08-2006, 08:30 PM
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Royal bank of scotland for me

Im totaly useless with money and they let me get away with absolute murder to do with charges and shit
Old 15-08-2006, 08:37 PM
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scottp's bro:

i cant believe you havent put the RBS down, its the second largest bank in europe! sorry we get that drilled into us at training, lol!
it is quite impressive actually how large the RBS group is!

Simon: i do find RBS are quite lenient with charges, lol. some banks are a lot more strict! But if you watch your account properly (closely, lol) then charges wont even happen!

I work and obviously bank there (staff rates rule) and i find the customer service is quite good!

so get that in the list! lol
Old 15-08-2006, 08:49 PM
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RBS are shit i fooked them right of after a lot of greif and shit service.

With halifax now and they have been spot on
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Halifax

And ..........................


Knee cap finance , If you got knee caps and I know where you live I can approve you for a loan today







Regards Doug .
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Abbey,great bank IMO...Lloyds TSB were wank
Old 15-08-2006, 09:14 PM
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Personally im with Yorkshire bank. Been with them since i can remember and TBH im with them because im that used to it... i prefer it that way..
They dont do the best saving interest rates, but i dont save anyways. Savings for people who dont think they could die tommorow pmsl


But, business wise im with Barclays. Just seemed to offer good service. Ill let ya know how good after april lol!
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Been with Halifax all my life with personal accounts and am only staying with them the fact it will help me when getting a mortgage (having banked with one organisation for years). I personally think they are shite, branches are unhelpful locally, they shut early on Saturdays, my online banking and telephone banking never works (they keep telling me to go into a branch to sort my id etc out so i do, go home, login again and it still dont work!! - given up now!!).

My business account is Lloyds and have so far had no problems with them!

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Old 15-08-2006, 09:19 PM
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I'm with NatWest coz they gave me some free stuff when I was a student (can't remember what they gave me now!) but they are crap I'm just too lazy to change. stupid charges and always making mistakes!
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RBS have been total cunts with my fiance so they can fuck right off!
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First Direct have always been OK for me and I really like their offset mortgage.
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Natwest..but just applied for an account with Smile too as I've heard good things
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Natwest, but they are all the same, just depends on the person you are dealing with. some are human and some are jobs worths that think they are better than you, but you get that in every walk of life.
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Im with Halifax and Natwest. Ive never had any problems with Halifax, they handled an incident where my card was cloned really well. Natwest on the other hand have been utter shit. They mess up all the time, used to hassle me for money to be paid in when i was a student (i was Ł500 overdrawn which is bugger all compared to the Ł2.5k overdraft they advertise). Halifax didnt complain once so now they get all my wages now. I find there online banking to be excellent as well.
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Been with the Abbey National all my life.....The cashier ladies are very sexy in there uniforms
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I'm with Natwest but work for RBS..
Old 16-08-2006, 08:21 AM
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Been with HSBC since I was 13, they have been spot on everytime I have needed them for something. At one point many years ago the Bank Manager of my local branch went well out of his way to threaten legal action against a Company who had taken me and my friend for a ride.

Since then i´ve had no problems at all with them, although more recently its started to bug me that they have moved their call centre to India, difficult to have a decent conversation with them now so I tend to do everything by online banking these days.

Mortgage is with Abbey, cant fault them on their interest rates, but i´d never have a Bank Account with them just purely from their treatment to friends of mine.
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Halifax for me - ever since I was born!

They offers good interest rates on all savings.
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Im with Natwest been with them for 8 years and not had a problem
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been with nationwide for 6 years and aint had a probelm yet
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HSBC & Nationwide. No agg with either but Nationwide won't let you pay a bill with cash or any other cheque than their own which is fucking stupid. They're a bank FFS.............

HSBC - just greedy thieving bastards. No problems with them apart from Bangladeshi call centres but no trouble to me.
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HSBC and LLoyds seem to be the popular ones.
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HSBC and first direct.. .

HSBC have been ok apart form hammering me with charges at every opportunity (they'll be sorry mwahahahaha) and first direct have been absolutely superb all along.. which is kind of ironic since they're the same company...
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