You may remember me whinging about the bank bouncing my first cheque when I moved to useless Lloyds??? They bounced the first cheque then denied having ever had it to my landlady while she had it in her hand with a Lloyds stamp on the back. I've been waiting to see how long it would be until the business manager lady got round to phoning and explaining. Yesterday (2 weeks later) I got the apologetic call. I hadn't been thinking in terms of compensation, but when the cheeky mare said she'd put £25 in my account I thought "hang on - I bet I could get more then". So I said "Great : - you'll have that back off me for one letter quick as a flash" and explained I'd been having to visit the bank, drawer out cash and pay it into peoples accounts and I'd taken 2 half days off. "How much do you want then? I can authorise the £25 right now or I can take it higher" "£200 and that's cheap, you'll still wangle it back off me in no time" "I'll have to take it up a level" "Thanks - I'll wait" Phone call half an hour later... "I can give you £100 today or take it up another level" Off you go then - take it up another level" Next day "£200 authorised and paid into your account. The manager didn't blink" Flippin Heck I should have gone for more it was so easy, but it feels good anyway. 8)
on the same sort of thing i got hit on the head in b un q i hadn't got home and the phone rang offering me 90 quid b un q vouchers any way long story short ended up 1500 quid and that is what gave me enough to buy peaches my lovely bus
zed i nearly fell over. shouting bank at someone with vertigo is not a good idea. i leant right over as i thought the jerries were on my tail, it was then i remembered i was not a fighter pilot in ww2
Well done Zed for persuing what is your rightful compensation for your inconvenience. I congratulate you for arriving at an amicable and satisfactory conclusion as a result of the banks obvious wrong doing, and the fact that you were not greedy with a 'take 'em for all I can' attitude. We should all remember that Lloyd's is 41% owned by the tax payer so each of us has contributed part of this compensation, all thanks to this institutions incompetence. The reason we should bear this in mind is that the 'take 'em for all I can' attitude is not big and not clever. Indeed it could be a factor of the current economic downturn (more expenses means less profit which leads to job cuts and unemployment etc....), as well as things like the rising cost of insurance when people think it is socially acceptable to inflate a claim to 'get what you deserve as you have paid for it for so long'....... Again, well done for arriving at a satisfactory acceptance. I'm sure your preferred option would have been for them to get it right 1st time and do as they said.
