Switching bank accounts

[Barman]

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Think your old system was probably better 

[Snoopy]

PLUS



Works well for me


ALTERNATIVELY

[Pastis]

 

Plans for my 60th birthday are changing; becoming an outlaw is rising steadily on the list 

[Snoopy]

Honestly it gets no better. I really do hope the "Coalition" (as we now seem to be required to call them) keep their promise of a bonfire of useless and annoying regulations.

I am, as you know, "retired" and I really imagined that I would be free of all this crap but I have quarterly battles with the Dept of Pensions, an annual fight with the Inland Revenue or whatever they call themselves this week and recently had a much forwarded letter from the VAT man asking about the current estimated (note that word) turnover of a business I sold in 1992. The pub (for that is what it was) was closed and demolished in 2001.

My dealings with banks, Dept of Pensions, Job Centres, HM Customs & Revenue etc would tax even that well know man of letters and battler with authority Mr D P Dance.

I am convinced it is to avoid having to make people redundant  that they keep up this barrage of enquiries and confusion.

[Pastis]

I'm inclined to agree. What's more it'll probably continue for some time after you have shuffled off your mortal coil (Sorry). IIRC it took about a year for my sister and I to convince certain "interested parties" that our dear departed father was no more, an ex-father, in fact snuffed it. 

The other thing that intrigues me in this switcheroo process (thank you, Boris), is the deafening silence coming from the Barclays ... 

I've heard not a word, a phone call, a letter, an email, anything asking me why I might no longer want to be a customer of theirs ... What about those concerned phone calls from your business manager? The interaction between SMEs and their banks?

 

[Pastis]

Cock up # 005:

I have a few subs / memberships etc that are paid by a yearly DD. Yup, the first one's gone tits up 

"We seem to have our direct debit collection refused ... "  Frankly it's not serious; I'll renew if and when I feel like it but the point is that all this was supposed to be taken care of! 

Tosserissimo! 

[Pastis]

Cock up # 006

Internet banking has been down most of the day 

Cock up # 007

The everso apologetic    Alistair cannot understand why an OD facility has still not yet been put in place  . That's 6 weeks from request 

He has 10 minutes left to call back according to his promise 

[Snoopy]

Taking your lead I have spent most of the morning describing the ins and outs of the cat's arsehole to various businesses in an attempt to save some money and switch suppliers (utilities, TV and Telephone services etc) and Banks. Why do they want so much information?
I also wanted to speak to Dept of Pensions ~ they told me I had to set up a telephone password and provide them with answers to a series of questions that had been agreed with Experian in order that in future they could be sure they were talking to me. "How would Experian know my favourite film anyway?" I asked.
"Oh they don't, they have just contracted to set up the system"
"Well you and they can take a hike ~ I shall write to you with my query .... I assume that doesn't require all this setting up of passwords and secret questions"
"That is correct sir and until we can compel everyone to deal on line or on the phone a letter from you will never need a password"

NOTE THE "COMPEL" ~ A Freudian slip no doubt 

[Pastis]

There was an article I read yesterday, ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/7886350/How-to-make-300-today.html

... Item #2, relating to switching bank accounts. "It's never been easier... " says she. My experience so far doesn't tally 

As for COMPEL, yup, I think it's going that way unless there's a total breakdown. Martha Lame-Duck wants us all to be online, even me ageing Aunt Lettuce! 

[Snoopy]

Indeed it was the Telegraph article that set me off + the devil finding work for idle hands I suppose, tho' in reality I have a lot to do but am putting it off in true Nickensian style until the last minute to impose a deadline on myself.

[Pastis]

      Incompetent tw@ts   

[Miss Demeanour]

 

Sit down and tell us all about it

[Snoopy]

 

[Nick]