free banking, overdrafts etc... finished?

[Blown2CV]

I pay a monthly fee on this account, so it isn't free even without using the overdraft

[Insertwittyname]

@sideways Rich - the Natwest private packaged account is for UK residents only, so when you move abroad it would not be in your interest to carry on paying the fee. I believe they offer offshore alternatives.

Only a matter of time before free banking is a thing of the past in the UK.

[davepoth]

Blown2CV said:

OK I now appreciate there is no such thing as free banking. I didn't want to put a couple of hundred quid in there just to prevent the odd sneak into overdraft, but it looks like I will have to do it. However to everyone who has chipped in their two pence into this thread assuming i can't even cover my own costs - fk OFF. This is about timings of payments, and me not wanting to fund the bloody account with several hundred quid just to avoid fees. I am NOT a payday loan scummer, and I have more than enough money every month, I just don't like putting it somewhere where I can never use it, but the banks can make money from it time and time again. You just read half of it and jumped to conclusions, you condescending sts.

I wasn't saying you are a payday loan scummer, merely that you are no better than one.

HTH.

[Insertwittyname]

Why not simply change the date of the payments out? Most companies are accommodating with payment dates.

[Sideways Rich]

Insertwittyname said:

@sideways Rich - the Natwest private packaged account is for UK residents only, so when you move abroad it would not be in your interest to carry on paying the fee. I believe they offer offshore alternatives.

Only a matter of time before free banking is a thing of the past in the UK.

Thanks chap will give them a call