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A week of hell with Barclays Bank – are all banks as useless as each other?

Tom Winnifrith
Sunday 15 March 2015

Nominally I have a premium account with Barclays Wealth International in the Isle of Man. Given how most of its customers are multi-millionaire tax dodgers my tiny account (balance on Monday 90p because Darren forgot to pay me in full last month) must be a bit of an anomaly but still I am meant to get a premium service. If that is the case God help the rest of you with a “standard service”

After 30 minutes on the phone on Monday I had established why the ATM was refusing to give me cash. I said thank you and did not actually need to use the card again until Friday lunchtime when knowing that I had at least £600 (thanks to Darren paying and reclaiming an annual fee taken without my wish by Amazon) I offered to buy a bloke lunch. I was declined.

Kindly he paid but I shall repay him £68.40 at a later date. I insist. 

On returning home I called Courtney my account manager in the IoM. 

“Why are you calling me

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Tom Winnifrith is the editor of TomWinnifrith.com. When he is not harvesting olives in Greece, he is (planning to) raise goats in Wales.
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