jeanc

Just looked in my spanish bank accout and a payment for 35 euros has been paid to these guys, who are they does anyone know? Is it some standing charge for a service?

XTreme

Looks like an electric company.....Iberdrola

Ex-pat

surely u must know who u are paying through your bank account or am i missing something.

jeanc

know that electric and water will be going out and house ins and yearly fee for solicitor but don,t know name of electric co so thanks Xtreme that must be who they are. solicitor set up standing orders not us

crispy

Hi Ex-pat believe it or not if you don't know what you are looking for then it can be difficult to work out what is what, bank statements are not always clear and for some reason numbers are often used in stead of names. We had 3 payments come out last month all with numbers on, when we checked our paper work it was all to do with payments for different parts of the council.

This month we have money come out and it just says credit card, this we know from last year is the fee for having a card but it took us two visits to the bank last August to sort this out. Didn't even know we had a credit card, they found it in their filing, it had been there a few weeks, gets even better we hadn't even asked for it. They kept tell us the payment was for our mobile phone recharge it was only because I kept saying it wasn't they looked in the filing box. It can sometimes be frustating but the trick is go with the flow, no point in getting upset because you get no where then, best to smile and laugh and then things get sorted.

spain

wait til you live in Spain....... the banks are a law onto themselves quite often there are odd payments or they make transfers you know nothing about

jdr

Yep, if you owe any money to any of the services and its in your account the bank will just pay them on demand. ;-(

spain

or transfer funds from one of your accounts to another WITHOUT authorisation