Timber Floor Au

JUst thought of someat !

When you move to Oz, you may decide to shut most of your bank accounts down, and or keep one going as a slush account.

Check:
1. they offer internet banking and you can access your account

2. Very Important.
Check if they NEED you to phone them that they have a regular Phone number ie 0151 number u know lol NOT 0845 or 0870 as you cannot access those numbers from over here using international dialling.

We had this problem with 1st direct

spottydog

Also, if you plan on taking money out of the UK account via cashpoints or payment card in Australia then Nationwide Flex account is the only one that doesn't charge extra for this. They are also happy to have a foreign address on the account as long as it is opened with a UK address then transferrred when you move and offer internet banking plus there is a regular UK phone number on the card as well as an 0845 one.

I've opened one of their accounts so my parents can pay christmas and birthday money into it and I can spend it without getting charged a fortune.

Timber Floor Au

Good Onya spotty ,

We had famil here recently and he kept using his atm card, I said itll cost ya more than the fee for your travellers cheques, which can BE FREE at the right places, nah he said wont matter...

left him to it lol

desperate2go

How did you overcome your 1st direct problem? cos that is the account i was going to keep open and they have been so brill i really dont want to leave them if i dont have to.

flip

Also make sure you sort your finances out in good time. I cancelled some direct debits a few days before I flew and the idiots cancelled the wrong ones. I've been here 7 weeks now, they won't reply to emails, can't get through on the phone, have lost my mail reinstating my mortgage payment and they won't talk to my mother event though they did receive my letter giving permission to talk to her and she's had to pay the mortgage while everything is sorted out.

God bless mothers, and especially mine.

Timber Floor Au

Debs managed to do it all over the internet, until.....

we needed to sort stuff out re payments in the uk, and eventually had to pass power of attorney , if thats right word to a solicitor in uk, friend of ours

BUT,,,

I will ask her in mornin if she ever got another land line number to call them on, and post a reply

p.s. they are very good

desperate2go

God bless mothers, and especially mine.[/QUOTE]

I second that ...and i dont even know your mother

Timber Floor Au

We left in October 2004 and have just received Powergen Bill from final reading, i told Debs, soddem dont pay it, lol... silly cow paid online

desperate2go

Thanks, that would be great.
I cant sing their praisie highly enough....only time in 9 years they ever cocked anything up- the next day they delivered a bouquet to my door....What other bank gives that kind of service nowadays??

Timber Floor Au

No Wukkas

I reckon without a doubt BOQ are FDirect equivalent here, they are brill

BettyBoop

Hi, do you know if this applies to their credit cared as i have just opened one?