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

[Fergal Daly]

At 19:57 15/03/00, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> > Ahem A.I.B. charge the same regardless... and seeing that the current 
> charges
> > on ma A/C are 23 quid for this quarter... and assuming that I keep the same
> > number of transactions this year (which really wasn't all that many) 
> It'll be
> > another 92 quid they get out of me... I'm getting even more annoyed now..
>
>We got our Bank of Ireland statement the other day.  Each time it arrives we
>peruse the number of times we're paying 22p to do something---like deposit,
>wire money in, withdraw at the ATM, do something with our laser card,
>whatever.
>
>Coming from a California credit union where everything and its uncle were
>free, it's taken some getting used to. :)

Have a look at the EBS, they don't charge for anything at all, ATM, direct 
debits, they'll even do up a bank draft for you for nothing. Maybe some of 
the other mutual building socs or TSB are the same,

Fergal