Back to Barclays (and ID cards)
Posted on Jan 28 2007 | Tagged as: Barclays are useless
Finally, halfway through my diploma, I’ve managed to sort out a loan so I can actually pay for the damn thing.
To recap: Barclays dicked me around for months, requesting utility and phone bills for my parents’ address but in my name, which I obviously didn’t have. This despite the fact that I’ve banked with Barclays for coming up six years and they should know perfectly well that I am who I say I am. (They also gave me a phone number that they claimed was for their Career Development Loan office, but was actually a helpline for KY Warming Jelly, and sent me this shockingly infantile letter about my unused savings account.)
So when Mr Blair next says anything about how businesses have so much information about us that is doesn’t matter if the government does too (the facts that 1. we voluntarily allow businesses to have this information and 2. they’re far more trustworthy notwithstanding) then I can say “Ah, but clearly they don’t…”.
Now the Co-op bank have been absolutely delightful, and approved my loan within two weeks without me having to do anything bar fill in two forms. They have, however, mis-spelled my name on my new bank card. If they can’t get it right, do you really think the National Identity clowns will?
