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Category Archives: Banks
Chip, PIN and not my card
Post at the BBC about cash machine fraud and the new ‘Chip and PIN’ is mentioned. I love it. It means I can use my wife’s card – even though it has MRS written on it. It means I can use her credit card because I have the number and they don’t check the card [...]
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They want to be my friend
One of the most obvious effects of having our name in some London Gazette and being declared officially potless was that our mailbox got dusty. No-one sent us letters. We got the basic utility bills and that was it. No offers, no bank statements, no leaflets – we got sod all. As it happened, that [...]
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Banks.
Given that banks are run entirely by computers and that there is absolutely no-one working for one who has the ability or desire to use independent thought, why do they have so many employees? Why do they have people? All those people are doing is feeding computers. They are not making decisions because computers do [...]
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How to complete and utterly waste your time
Talk to a bank. That’s it. The time you do that is wasted. Pointless. Useless.
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Nat-damn-west
Walk into Nationwide Building Society, ask for all my money. No, can’t have it. Can only have £500 and the rest in a cheque. “We don’t have enough money”. Bollocks. Anyway, get cash, get Bankers cheque. Walk out. Cross road. Place all of it into the Natwest. Cheque will take 5 working days to clear [...]
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