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[Rooster-UK]

I've just been listening to it.

It played OK on my PC with REALplayer.

[elsinore]

I've just been listening to it.

 

Well,what did you think of it, Roo? Or are you speechless?!!

 

Elsinore

[Rooster-UK]

Gob-smacked !

 

I thought that the interviewer was patronising to BAG. members.

That said, he did redeem himself with the question of the lawfullness of the charges.... the representative of the banks was made to feel very uncomfortable.... this was obvious from her voice.

 

Closing accounts doesn't suprise me..... The banking industry is like a spoilt child...... If you won't play my games, then I'm taking my ball in, so there !

[Robertxc]

It was me who was on at the beginning describing how I got my dosh back from Abbey. My bit was edited together from about 20 minutes of chatting to the guy. He asked some good questions, and I gave some forthright answers, but I wouldn't say he was patronising to me.

 

I thought the A&L and BBA women came across very poorly, and I would say that they did the banks' position no favours at all. That being said, they were trying to put a fundamentally weak point across, which was always going to be difficult.

[TaylorMade]

I listened yesterday lunchtime with interest. This subject has been on Moneybox a couple of times recently, and after the last time (2-3 weeks ago) I sent my story into Radio4/Moneybox. Unfortunately all I got was a 'standard' reply saying someone might follow it up in the future.

 

Thanks to the piece yesterday I knew which links to follow to end up here - and after reading a couple of people's stories I'm dying to get my teeth into a few characters at HSBC and MBNA

 

Good work on the radio - you didn't take any rubbish and the bank's words were defensive and weak. [ and nice to 'meet' you all ]

[elsinore]

Hello TaylorMade, welcome and good luck with your claims.

 

We were all so indignant after the programme that we forgot to say thanks (like you did) to Robertxc and seminole for their contributions.

 

So, to Robertxc and seminole, THANKS and well done.

 

Onwards and upwards

 

Elsinore

[fivelaws]

If people hadn't already realised, you can listen to this on "listen again" service from the bbc website. I think it only stays up until the next program, but if you missed it - you've still got about 24-hours to listen.

 

Maybe I'm suffering from hearing problems, but when asked if the £50 od charge was truly the cost to the bank, the A&L lady clearly said "no, but it is fair". Is that a public admission?

 

And also; Their position is that it would be too expensive to fight these cases, on the basis that it would cost them too much to defend individual cases. According to the survey, A&L have handed over (for no reason) £31,942 to people on the BAG survey. If they had spent £20,000 defending the first claim, they would have saved £12k... And possibly much more. Does that make business sense to *anybody*???

[Seminole]

Hello TaylorMade, welcome and good luck with your claims.

 

We were all so indignant after the programme that we forgot to say thanks (like you did) to Robertxc and seminole for their contributions.

 

So, to Robertxc and seminole, THANKS and well done.

 

Onwards and upwards

 

Elsinore

 

Just to say, it wasn't me.

[elsinore]

Oops!

 

Thanks seminole.

 

Well, whoever you are, thanks!!

 

Elsinore

[caro]

I thought it was BankFodder. Kind of guessed it was Robert when they introduced him. Sorry, forgot to say before, well done Robert and ?

[PeteCC]

If anyone wishes to hear this broadcast, click on the link below and on the page click Money Box just under the Radio 4 logo near the top right of the page.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/default.stm

 

Regards to all,

 

PeteCC

[BankFodder]

 

Maybe I'm suffering from hearing problems, but when asked if the £50 od charge was truly the cost to the bank, the A&L lady clearly said "no, but it is fair". Is that a public admission?

 

 

And another useful telephone conversation which presumably went unrecorded and so is completely deniable by the bank

[fivelaws]

And another useful telephone conversation which presumably went unrecorded and so is completely deniable by the bank.

 

It was on the radio programme! Broadcast nationally and 100% un-deniable!

[rbrears]

It was priceless.

 

"Why don't you take one of these cases to court and get a judgement to stop all these claims?"

 

"We prefer to carry on dealing with the claims as we have so far (i.e. paying them)"

 

Smile? - I laughed and laughed.

[chrismc]

A good listen, well done Robert and I think Bankfoddder points put over quite comprehensively!! on the other hand the bank rep was not very good, but very interesting the fact that they will continue to pay up and not fight!!

[vix2000]

Well done Robert and Bankfodder. Excellent interviews. The lady banker didn't sound very convincing to me. Made a few ambiguous statements. The threat of account closures was very clear though, wasn't it?

[blueskies]

For the benefit of Bookworm and anyone else who can't listen to it a full transcript can be found here

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programmes/money_box/transcripts/10_06_06.txt