internet scams.

Nor me. But I just have evolved a financial system that suits me, and
now Barclays are taking it away.

 

OK

<VBG>

But it foxed her....

 

Yes. And?

 

Perhaps he's actually an eccentric billionaire who has a lot to be
paranoid about. The penny pinching, SOB trading and ebaying of bike
parts could all be an elaborate ruse to create the right impression to
deter gold-digging bimbos intent on wrapping their loveliness around
his lucky charms and walking away with his liquid assets.

You can just never tell, can you?

 

but don't forget to print off Simian's post so you can sound incredibly
impressive when the going gets tough with Barclays - as it inevitably
will.

Surely they must be worried at losing a millionaire [1] customer like
you?

[1] given that you don't spend any money I assume it's all just stacking
up in your account [2]
[2] ;-)

 

<inevitable comment mode>
why the hell not? you're loony enough ;-)
<icm>

 

You (lovable) sod.....

 

You mean the details he gives away every time he writes a cheque?
I don't get it either.

 

Well, I've not been to the Branch where my account is nominally held in
about 15 years.

 

I really object to the una-bomber comparison.

 

More of a multi-bomber?

 

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:22:05 +0000, Andrewr At Work wrote:

I remember getting one of the first cash-point cards, back in about 1979.
That was on a Midland account. The machine would dispense £10[0][1] at a
time and the card was punched each time, so it could only be used 10 times.

[0] In ones. <nostalgiac sign>
[1] Back then £10 was worth something.

 

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:51:34 +0100, The Older Gentleman wrote:

<SNIP Ned Ludd lives>

Well, if you don't want to avail yourself of the convenienece of modern
banking technology that's your business. But expecting a high street bank
to tailor a mass-market product to your individual needs is a bit foolish:
that's simply not the business they're in.

 

Actually I can think of 5 extremely wealthy and only slightly mad people
who would transfer like a shot to the first bank who offered a "classic"
[1] bank account. As a demographic I suspect it would be a bunch of
rich and fairly undemanding people who don't want you to write to them
or innovate for them, they just want you to foff and leave them alone to
read the RHS news letter.

[1] as in one that works the same way the one their Victorian farther
open for them and explained to them.

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.

 

Yes, that's me as a customer,that is.

 

Yes, that's me as a customer,that is.[/QUOTE]

http://www.hoaresbank.co.uk/

 

And my Aunt and Mother, though not my Dad, he likes to download his
statements on a spreadsheet for the accounts.

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.

 

There may well be a market for such an account. But that's not the people
that the "normal" bank account is aimed at. I'm sure someone like Coutts
could manage to meet those requirements, though.

 

Coutts is just NatWest - er, RBS now - with extra charges and bogus
snobbery, if having Mrs. Battenberg (the jumped-up North German hausfrau) as
a customer is something to feel the least bit snobbish about. C. Hoare &
Co., by wonderful contrast, provide discreet, old-fashioned service with
every 21st century electronic convenience if and when you want it. They
simply do what you (the mere customer) want without dictating what they are
prepared to provide. Astonishingly good value, too, but we mustn't shout
about it for fear of attracting the riff-raff!

 

I'm afraid the slight element of meanness [1] prohibits this obscure
section of society paying good money for a service that someone else
will do not quite as well for free, also they may find the gold Rolex
wearing Essex property spives and football players that seem to frequent
such places a bit of a turn off.

[1] not with time or love you understand, just cash

--
Bob
Currently borrowing a black and red Yamaha XJ750 with fuel injection
Present: Honda XL125RF (FS)
Past: Honda CG125
bob at homeurl tomato dot co dot uk
remove the red fruit if you’d like to email me.