[ILUG-Social] Re: Hitting back at banks..

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:58:48 -0000 (GMT) John Ronan <j0n at tssg.wit.ie>  wrote:
| Afternoon gents... I wonder if any of you saw the article in the Sunday Times.
| Basically the gist is they are trying to get everyone to write 5 cheques for 1p
| to friends on April 1st, IIRC the article said that it costs the banks roughly
| 27p to process each cheque.. thus it costs the banks a fortune... 

Um, guess who pays that 27p?

| As it happened I got my Fee advice statement from A.I.B. yesterday... and I'm
| really really annoyed... (I've had the account for years...) I'm getting
| screwed for everything, lodging/widthdrawals/cheques everything...  I haven't
| investigated any of the other banks in this country, but I'd change banks right
| now I'm so annoyed..

| Just wondering what the groups thoughts on the subject are...

I'm getting increasingly ticked off and have been looking around to see who 
does it better. NIB have a couple of 'free' account types, although the full 
featured one isn't available from the word go. On a standard order between my 
personal account and our joint one (both with BOI, different branches) BOI 
charge me a withdrawal and lodgment charge on each transaction.
	Paul.