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Revenge at Last!
Some of you may remember that in January of last year I was, due to Abbey’s shockingly lax security procedures, subjected to a banking fraud which, due to to Abbey’s shockingly poor internal processes, left me in two months of financial turmoil.
Needless to say, once I’d got access to my cash again I opened a new account with First Direct (in fact I have opened several over time) and manually transferred funds and direct debits etc over to it.
The time has now come to finally close off the old Abbey accounts and I took great pleasure the other week in closing down the savings account. The current account I will do in person tomorrow, but the savings I could do over the phone so I did.
And yesterday I not only recieved confirmation of the closure, but also a cheque for calculated interest which I wasn’t expecting.
What delights me, however, is the fact that – given the account’s been empty for the best part of a year – the cheque cost them more to process and send than its value: £0.09.
The flatmate has told me that I absolutely must deposit it, too. As Abbey aren’t a clearing bank the transaction should cost them about £0.80 on top of what they’ve already lost.
It’s a small and petty piece of revenge I know, but to cost them money for a bit is an opportunity I feel obliged to make the most of.
Posted on March 8, 2009 | Filed Under My So-Called Life
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