Hooray! A full account!

A question about : Hooray! A full account!

At last, I've managed to get a normal account with Maestro card. Guess who obliged?

Natwest!

I was given a Current Plus account with Servicecard 100, which is a Maestro debit and Ј100 cheque guarantee. They even offered me Ј1000 overdraft (which of course I turned down).

Thank you very much Natwest, I'll now be able to tell Halifax where to go with their Electron and lack of any kind of "customer care".

:-)

Best answers:

• If I were you I would forgo the pleasure of telling the Halifax where to go. Frying pans and fire come to mind. However I am not you.
• Well, that was painless. Got my chequebook and card through yesterday, online banking all up and running, transferred all my DD's and SO's already and withdrew all but a penny from my Halifax account.
  Very happy to have a decent account (one that you can withdraw cheques on the 4th day after paying them in, compared to the halifax's seven working day absurdity).
  And I bought petrol with my debit card for the first time in years yesterday!
  Thanks, Natwest. I will stay with you for a long time for the way you've treated me.
• I have stayed with the NatWes for decades.
  I only have about a Ј1 in there most of the time.
  I changed to Halifax about 20 years ago.
  Now:-
  Halifax Current account !3.0%
  Natwest Current Account 0.10% or less
  Halifax 2900% better than Natwest on this basis.
• Each to his own.
  There are several on-line current accounts better than Halifax, with linked savings accounts, that come to mind. smile for instance.
• Smile may be good but their parent company - Co-op is the WORST bank you could imagine !
• i must say you are the first person i have seen saying a bd thing about co-op. i am thinking fo mooving to smile in the next few days. can you elaborate on why their parent company is not so good?