[OT] What is this country coming to?

On 23 Dec 2005 03:56:13 -0800, "Peter King" mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

Lol. Not at all. Although I'm not permitted to use the card for OTC banking transactions, there's nothing in the Ts&Cs which says I can't use the counter to change the note denominations dispensed by the ATM using this card and imv the bank shouldn't quibble about it.

The real issue was not that I w/d cash using this account card and then tried to perform an OTC transaction, but that the bank have curious rules about changing notes dispensed by their own ATM and insist on putting the exchange through an account at all.

Bear in mind that when the counter clerk explained that she had to put all exchanges through an account, she didn't know I had used my Internet/ATM account card to w/d the money, so this wasn't the issue.

That is a possibility but it would have meant making four transactions and a) I would have created an agitated queue of other customers and b) I don't know if the machine might have blocked access after, say, the first 2 or 3 to protect customers from card thieves.

In message , Pigeon writes

They arent a bank, they are a building society. What you wanted was no different than going into Tesco and asking a cashier to change some notes.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:46:32 +0000 (UTC), "DVH" mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

Quite possibly but afaik it won't work on brains with less than 2 cells, so you're out of it dumpty.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:04:45 +0100, abelard

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You may call me what you like. It's irrelevant since you have no idea whether I'm a sponger or not.

On 22 Dec 2005 16:07:14 -0800, "Peter King" mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

You seem to have missed the point that I w/d the cash from this bank's ATM.

I am a customer of this bank.

Perhaps because I was already in the bank where I'd w/d the cash?

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:20:37 +0000, john boyle mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

Perhaps because I'm a customer of this bank and I'd just w/d the cash from their ATM inside the bank? Did their ATM ask me how I'd like the cash dispensed? No.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:56:54 +0100, abelard

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Liar. Typical SOCIALIST.

Wrong.

On 23 Dec 2005 04:16:04 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@virgin.net mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

At which point I completely forgot why I was there in the first place!

glad to see you don't deny it...

it's just buzzy's route to fomenting the revolution...

regards...

what you got against bimbos! eh!!

are they marrying your cousin or applying for asylum?

i want your to feel at home...at least during the season of goodwill as we infidels call it....

how can you know....keep on striving....

it probably didn't recognise you....

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:13:20 +0000, Paul Hyett mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

True but banks apply the anti-money laundering laws in the way they see fit and often exceed the legal requirements for their own benefit and hide behind the law to pass the buck.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:34:38 +0100, abelard

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Nothing as long as they don't open their mouth at the wrong time!

Neither. I appreciate that regarding yourself, the very idea that a friend might come to stay would be a novelty.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:31:39 +0100, abelard mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...

Wouldn't you just love us all to roll over.....a true SOCIALIST.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:27:47 +0100, abelard

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One doesn't feel the need to deny something which is absurdalard.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:37:12 +0100, abelard

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Then what's the point of having personalised bank cards with PINs?

the obvious generosity behind your kind offer is appreciated but i must respectfully decline even during the solstice season....