Wanty's New Place

[Anonymous]

BBQ's still on for tonight :

Minted lamb kebabs + prawn and monkfish skewers + Sweet Chilli chicken wings.

Popped into the Thatchers shop as I came through Sandford and picked up a few http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=thatchers&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=687&tbm=isch&tbnid=bmCJtOOR6...

[MI5]

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@Beenherebefore wrote:
With Nationwide you have the ability to log the dates when you are out of the country and in which country you'll be.

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I can do the same with my Halifax account.

[Cleoriff]

I used to do it with Nationwide every time I went abroad. Then they told me I had no need to do it 'as they could see the pattern' However I thought transactions such as the car in the UK (when I was in Spain) may have caused a bit of confusion...so I told them before I went...

[jonsie]

So you transfer 100K into your bank account and no checks if you are money laundering but god forbid if you want to pay out 10K. No not good when they happily grab payments in but the fraud department deems it fit to query a payment out the same day. I could have lost a home because of this. Fraud checks yes I can live with but a large payment in, no questions. A relatively small payment out and they put a hold on it which could have far reaching consequences if I han't phoned up.

How much would a call have cost me if I was payandgo?

40 minutes hold @ £1.49/minute or part minute....you do the maths but it's my ****** money not the bank's. It seems fairly obvious to me that if you pay a large sum in and you make a smaller payment out to an estate agent, it beggars belief that they think oh hang on, someone is committing fraud. They can stick their bank when I open a bank account with the Siam bank here. Whose money again? Don't give me the crap about protecting me, they could have jeopardised my future.

[Cleoriff]

Errrrrmmmmm Ok I was just saying lol

I have never experienced that side of things so only speaking from my own experience. I have had fraud on my account 3 times over a 12 year period with Nationwide. One was to the tune of £1800 and was being spent by someone in Australia. They blocked the account...rang me and within 24 hrs had paid that amount in full back to me. So I have reason to support them for their rapid response......

[Beenherebefore]

@jonsie ....the difference is probably how the £100k was paid in.....BACS from a solicitor ?

[jonsie]

It was BACS to a Lloyd account but two payments/transfers when going into the Nationwide account, simply because I had already set up monthly transfers into the Thai account. Been transferring money to the same Thai account for 2 years now.

[Anonymous]

It's Pimms o' clock 

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

off to bed with a Horse's Neck ... ...  ... proper photo won't copy & paste 

[Cleoriff]

A horses neck? Must look that up?