Comments on: Northern Rocks bad bank is not that bad after all. /blog/debt/northern-rocks-bad-bank-not-that-bad-after-all/ Advice in good times and bad Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Hawkins /blog/debt/northern-rocks-bad-bank-not-that-bad-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2906 David Hawkins Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:13:03 +0000 /blog/?p=356#comment-2906 Thank you for that . I have been a mortgage broker for over 40 years with a Northern Rock Mortgage and presumed I was also in the "wilderness" as I am moving this year it is good news for once in this current doom and gloom industry.Keep up the good work Thank you for that . I have been a mortgage broker for over 40 years with a Northern Rock Mortgage and presumed I was also in the “wilderness”
as I am moving this year it is good news for once in this current doom and gloom industry.Keep up the good work

]]> By: Ian Lees /blog/debt/northern-rocks-bad-bank-not-that-bad-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2905 Ian Lees Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:09:55 +0000 /blog/?p=356#comment-2905 It is not only Northern Rock where people are trapped. NAtionwide refuse to allow customers access to their own money unless they provide the Nationwide Token - a plastic card. Graeme Beale CEO refuses to allow his employees to accept a cheque book and a passport as proof of identity. Furthermore Nation wides stance is to refuse customers acces to more than £ 500-00 in cash at ANY ONE TIME. BT refuse to permit us to have a telphone number transferred to our exchange. To have calls dicverted Ian Livingstone CEO, and Chairman Sir Michael Rake - charges our small firm £ 192-30 per quarter - and there is nothing we can do to have this amount changed. The costs are as follows Rental charges £ 117-22 Cost of Calls £ 27-59 ( to have calls diverted ) Payment Processing Fee £ 9-00 Late Payment Charge £ 13-50 Since the calls are diverted to a residential line we are unable to make ANY CALLS OUT. BT charges £ 42-00 a QUARTER to have the residential Line ( and they previously changed it to a Business Line with EXTORTIONATE CHARGES APPLIED - without notifucation. Does anyone else have a solution ? Kind regards Ian Lees It is not only Northern Rock where people are trapped. NAtionwide refuse to allow customers access to their own money unless they provide the Nationwide Token – a plastic card. Graeme Beale CEO refuses to allow his employees to accept a cheque book and a passport as proof of identity. Furthermore Nation wides stance is to refuse customers acces to more than £ 500-00 in cash at ANY ONE TIME.
BT refuse to permit us to have a telphone number transferred to our exchange. To have calls dicverted Ian Livingstone CEO, and Chairman Sir Michael Rake – charges our small firm £ 192-30 per quarter – and there is nothing we can do to have this amount changed. The costs are as follows
Rental charges £ 117-22
Cost of Calls £ 27-59 ( to have calls diverted )
Payment Processing Fee £ 9-00
Late Payment Charge £ 13-50

Since the calls are diverted to a residential line we are unable to make ANY CALLS OUT. BT charges £ 42-00 a QUARTER to have the residential Line ( and they previously changed it to a Business Line with EXTORTIONATE CHARGES APPLIED – without notifucation.
Does anyone else have a solution ?
Kind regards

Ian Lees

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