S@NTANDER Closed my account

Shyte bank now

I like them the staff call me by my first name and are always very pleasent to me.

They always say good morning do how are you today

even the door is power assisted to make life easier

Or the Salford Branch version which is 'Alright our kid, how ya doin'.

I shall have to confer with youngest daughter as she's a branch manager.

Try opening an account these days. Santander wanted me to come back the following week for an hours appointment just to open a simple account and the whole tone of the staff was they were doing me a favour. Ridiculous place.

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They dont talk like that in our branch ,they talk proper english and even use commas and full stops when they talk.
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my post - wrong thread

They keep sending me survey tests to see how i like the bank ,and i always put at the end your staff are a credit to your company

banked with them for over 25 years, never had a problem with them.

In fact i visited the branch today .and not one of the staff looked drunk from the night before,thats what i call proper staff

Moved to them for the 3% interest and cash back. Was a bit concerned about their reputation service wise but tbf no problems whatsoever.

The interest/cashback gets me £50 net after tax/account fee, effectively money for nothing compared to e.g. Nat West.

£50 a month that is

A shabby company.
I tried to open an ISA with them and they lost my application form which caused quite a delay and me a lot of trouble.
That was after I'd stressed that the ISA I was transferring from had a string attached if it wasn't done in time.

I always thought the assistant who took the form had done it on purpose because I'd complained about another incident involving shabby treatment from them.

all banks are sh1t.

ive threatened to leave 2 of mine because they are incompetent d1ckheads

is it a spanish bank, or do they just that name to sound cool? santander bank, founded in 1953 in chorley.

doubt it.
all i know is their spanish share price went from 350 to 600 within the last year which takes some doing.
admittley they were paying 11% divis which was laughable when you think about it

Santander is Spain’s largest banking group and before 2004 had no retail operations in the UK.
Santander UK plc is a United Kingdom bank, wholly owned by the Spanish Santander Group. The bank, with its head office in the London Borough of Camden,was established on 11 January 2010 when Abbey National plc was combined with the savings business and branches of Bradford & Bingley plc, and renamed Santander UK plc. Alliance & Leicester plc merged into the renamed business in May 2010.

Between 2007 and 2010, Santander was ranked as worst bank for customer service in the J. D. Power UK Retail Banking Satisfaction Study.
However, in recent years the bank has improved its customer service and its '123' product range was ranked third best in the UK in 2013, ahead of rivals Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and RBS.

ive got 123 and lloyds vantage
123 p1sses all over lloyds hands down

DO WAH, WHEN YOU SAY THEY CALL YOU BY YOUR NAME AND ARE PLEASANT TO YOU I THINK THEY ARE ACTUALLY TELLING YOU TO DO ONE.

Surely that can't be true about the bank paying an 11% divi? What kind of bank needs to pay that much to attract investors?

put santander bank into an anagram maker. comes out 'satan rends bank' self explanatory really.

did you get your money back Sid?

screaming
it was all related to the cypriot banking system and the jitters.

investors thought spain had a chance of going a  similar route...
in the mean time santander still were doing ok

Hmmm. I'll still pass, thanks very much. I wouldn't deposit even a brass farthing with a bank that has recently had to pay 11% to retain its funding, however mistaken the market supposedly was.

Goes some way to explaining why they're having to pay parispike 3% interest to get readies in the till.

been with them since abbey national, all i get is letters from them asking if i want their credit card, when im at the counter 'would you be interested in a credit card mr yuvutu?' online banking, a pop up asking me fill out a form for a credit card.  saw there 123 credit card where you earn cash back (worked out id get at least 200 quid a year cash back on petrol) went in apply for a credit card, wouldnt give me one!!
p.s my credit rating is top notch aswell

Went downhill when I quit in the mid-90s. Hard to see that it's merely coincidental!

think you misunderstood.

they were still doing well but the market reduced their share price because of the jitters.

divis are less than 11% now because the share price rose accordingly to how they as an individual bank were doing and not the banking sector in general.

there were some bargains around not long ago because of all the negative stuff constantly put out int he media.