no cell phone calls to banks

whoops. well doesnt it just suck. i hate not being able to ring the bank for free when im out during the day to check my balance. ANZ took away their toll free number first so i changed to ASB and now they've done it too.

How are you supposed to run your battery dead now then???

stupid how they setup a FREE 0800 number to please the customers, then take it all away....its like they wanna piss thier customers off! just use a shops phone, or a payphone to ring the 0800 number.

or check your account b4 you go out!

Yeah, you get it so you can check your balance by only holding the phone to your ear when it reads it to you (done the rest by knowing the numbers to push without looking) and then one day you think... Oh, Im stuck on the first message... AND ITS TELLING ME TO RING ANOTHER NUMBER!!!! AAAAAAAGGGHH!

This is my life. And its ending one minute at a time

it's fucking bullshit ?


they tell u should do all ur banking on the phone and the net and not to bother coming to the "bank" cause it is a waste of ur time and they charge u fees to do anything ove the counter?

as if we didnt have to pay for anything else

fucking wankers ;-(

Yeah it sux. especially for those of us on prepay, cos u can still check it if u have 1 cent on your phone, now they've gone and got all cheap. its not like banks dont make enough money off us with all the eftpos transactions in clubs, bars, and clothing stores!

banks suck im gana hide all my money in a safe when i get paid next time

and then i wont be charged for holding in there vault.

i had x amount of $$ on this thing where i left it for aboot 6 months. i made $100 of them then when i took it out the bastards charged me $10 to take it out

they can suck my big bat

its how banks make money, your gotta pay for sucuretiy(sp)

yea right and that is why the get robbed?

mind u my local is always worth making a trip to , cause there is a young pommy girl in there and she is so farking grhhhh


always makes the banking duites a little better

those accents drive me so farking crazy dammiiitttt

Yeah, put iut in context eh. Think of the value you get from your bank, the security, convenience etc, and then think about how much you pay a year in fees. Probably not that much - compared to something like insurance, where you pay heaps for financial security. I don't pay many fees at the moment (student), but I'm quite happy to pay more if I'm using the banks services.

The phone things is vageuly annoying though, but I'll bet it was costing them heaps from people on cells. Maybe when cellphone call prices come down more (we're still very expensive by international standards) they'll allow it again.....

costing them heaps?

voice they are the bank they have lots of money :-p

what are you talking about forest?

in the end the calls arnt free cause id say we are really paying for them.

well it's a circle we think the calls to them are free but they just charge us more fees.

so they really wernt free in the big picture anyone get my drift ?

i luv my eftpos account cos for sum reason i dont get charged the fee for every transaction!! it was originally setup on a student account thing to waive it back in 96/97 and it has still continued. wohoo rock on. ive ripped the bank of heapz