Are thing all ok at Lloyds16 Oct 2022 20:45
I am aware that Santander are having some issues but with them offering 2.75% I decided to move some money, I was already warned on Saturday morning by a friend who said, he gave up, and wished me luck.
In the normal fashion, I tried to transfer money from my account to my Santander account, only to be kicked out of the website, I re-logged in and tried the same again, this time to be hit with, this transfer has been blocked, and a prompt call this number.
Now, I had already been warned about this by my friend, he gave up after waiting 30 minutes on this line, but that’s not me. 39mins later after the call continually rang, someone finally answered.
Under the umbrella of checking if this transfer related to fraud, the only thing that seem to be fraud, was this whole blocking my transfer, what a scam. They tried everything in the book to stop me transferring my money, at one point I even offered to keep my money in the account if they offered me the same interest rate. Having spent 25 minutes on the call, at logger heads at times with the agent, I gave them the ultimatum, either you let me move my money or I will close my account. seems this is the magic words, finally, but instead of moving some, I moved the lot.
I am aware thing are not rosy at Santander, but with the way they were acting, something is not right at lloyds, it was like retentions on steroids.
I thought I was in Argentina..
And yes, I have raised a complaint with ombudsman’s, for what good that will do..