Barclays Online Banking

[darrenb]

No, I meant the high street banks.

Long ago on CUK I posted asking for an alternative to the high street banks in Britain, somewhere nice and safe and boring to store my money. I experimented a bit, but never really found anything other than Cater Allen. These days, I use German bank accounts (which have a different set of problems).

Anyway you will sometimes hear it said that the problems with the financial sector are with investment banking, not retail banking. I believe that there has been a fall in standards across the whole spectrum, and everyone down to the lowliest clerk has been corrupted to some degree.

[wurzel]

It seems to be slow as f**k today - anyone else having problems?

[tractor]

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What annoys me is how you can't go in and download an old statement if you once received it on a paper statement.

Would that be so hard just to let me download old statements in electronic form?

This is because some smart-arsed business analyst somewhere did the calcs and told them this is still a good profit centre and advised them not to give it away for free when they can charge £2 a shot for them.

HTH

ps It wasn't me, I can't get a contract in finance because ... errm ... I don't have any experience in finance ... durrrrh

[BigTime]

It seems to be slow as f**k today - anyone else having problems?

Last day of the month, same old tulipe hawk