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A fairy tale about bank robbery - Un atraco con final feliz Sat, 28 Feb 2009
This is a short description of what happened to my girlfriend at a bank recently. It's not about millions, it's a short sum of money, but the way the bank tried to steal it from us is outrageous. I'll write it (exceptionally) in spanish, since it's happened here in Madrid at a "Banco Santander" office. I'll write a short sum up in english at the end :-)
Lo sucedido
Esto es el relato sin adornos de como el Banco Santander intentó robar hace poco a mi novia todo lo que tenia ingresado en el banco. Como ya decía en inglés, no es una pataleta, quiero denunciar un robo pero no tengo mejor sitio donde hacerlo.
Seis meses despues y tras informarnos de tasas de transferencia internacionales resulta que no compensa en absoluto ingresarla en españa y transferirle; mejor pagar el impuesto revolucionario del pais de destino directamente. Así que decidimos cerrar la cuenta y usar esos 50 euros para comprarle ropa a su sobrino (al de mi novia) que esta pasando una fase familiar "compleja".
Aquí ahora debería venir una larga lista de amargas quejas sobre el sisteema financiero, los bancos, la politica de la cutrez y mezquindad que domina nuestra sociedad actualmente, pero dejemoslo ahi.
English synopsisLong story short. We opened an account (at the Banco Santander) six months ago, entered 50 euros, wanted to cancel it last week after not having used it because international transfer fees were way too high on thihs bank and, to our inmense surprise, not only had we lost the 50 euros but we were supposed to pay an additional 8 euros to cancel the account. They charged us 27 euros of yearly maintenance, 12 euros for a credit card we never received nor used and another 17 as cancellation fees. The story had a happy ending tho: the nice people at the bank decided on their own to give us our 50 euros back without charging us anything, nice move :-). Aaah, and as a side note, this bank had a netto benefit of 8876 million last year.
posted at: 13:47 | path: /personal | permanent link to this entry | 1 comments |
* Posted by gabi at Sat Mar 7 13:38:22 2009
hola
Nosotros hemos tenido la misma experiencia con Caja de Madrid y BBVA. . . con OpenBank estamos bastante contentos . . por ahora slds
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