When enjoying the skilled oral attentions of a pretty young lady (col. “getting a blow job“) do not relax and savour the moment too much. If she is to query your rapture with the phrase “Did I just hear you ******* snore?!” it is liable to result in an end of sexual pleasure for that evening, and perhaps some time to come.
[Aside: I love the tags that Zemanta came up with for this post – ranging from “blow job” and “oral” to “Religion and Spirituality” and “Christianity”. I guess church-goers suck a lot of cock.]
After firing off an email of complaint regarding the handling of my request for a new credit card, I got a reply back from the Nationwide. In it they apologise for the “confusion” and confirm that they have indeed supplied me with a credit card, complete with extended expiration date.
I now only hope it arrives soon enough for me to get hold of it before I depart for Asia…
After singing their praises for long enough, I’ve had a bit of a serious issue with Nationwide. The situation can be summed up from the email I just sent them through the online banking system. This is in addition to the problem I have with their damn new card readers, which I’ve also mailed them about.
I have a serious issue with my Nationwide credit card. My current card expires end of XX/XX and I will be travelling abroad during this time.
I rang around a month ago to ask for a new card with a longer expiry date to be sent out (MBNA did this for me twice) and was told this was no problem and that the card would be in the post shortly.
It had not arrived as of this morning – as I said, over a month – so I rang to chase it up. Only to be told that it was impossible for such a card to be sent out and I’d have to wait until Aug/Sept for the system to generate a new one for me.
This places me in SE Asia / Australia with no credit card as I cannot get the card sent on to me. I don’t know where I’ll be staying or for how long, so getting a new card forwarded will be impossible.
I am already abroad, so it cost me a small fortune to ring this afternoon and chase something that wasn’t happening. And now I find that I will have no credit card from the end of September. I can’t even apply for a new one from another supplier as I’m not in a position to fill in forms!
Nationwide have *really* let me down on this occasion. Frankly, I have no idea what I’m going to do regarding this situation. It’s pathetic.
I have no idea what they’re going to do. If they can’t get another card out to my folks with a longer extension on it before the end of this month, I have no way of getting a replacement. My only other option is to shift to my secondary credit card which charges 2.9% on all foreign currency transactions, which will push up the cost of my travels just a bit.
Add this to the aforementioned concerns with their bloody personal card readers and suddenly my opinion of Nationwide has taken a huge hit.
Just curious… did anyone reading this get an email from PayPal in the last day or so saying there was a problem with their account and that access had been restricted?
I ask as I got one this morning saying that I needed to log on to remove the restrictions, which I did – by changing my password and security questions. However, I’m puzzled by their reason for forcing me to do this: that someone they suspected may not have been me had accessed the account.
Note: “accessed”. Not “attempted to access”.
Now, if they had accessed the account, why didn’t they take the small amount of cash I have sat there? And if they did get in, then why would PayPal suspect it’s not me? It’s not like a bank where they ask you for further ID once you’re inside and realise that the photo on the passport doesn’t look like you.
Had they hammered the login several times and not got the right password, then why make me change the one I had? It was obviously good enough.
But what’s really made me ask this question is that when I mentioned it to Joleen this morning, she said “I got a message like that yesterday!” – only hers was slightly different. The mail itself stated that they suspected a dodgy credit card transaction in relation to her account (again, no details at all) and for her to regain access, she has to fax them a copy of a statement or something. Which seems pointless as well as pretty annoying and inconvenient in this day and age.
So I’m curious… has anyone else had anything like this happen in the last few days? Because the cynical part of me is wondering if there’s really nothing at all wrong with any of the accounts and PayPal are instead just trying to look like they’re being secure by inventing problems that they’re “saving” us from.
I’ve got an issue with Nationwide at the moment. They’ve not done anything wrong. They’re just trying too hard to protect “me” against fraud to the point where they could potentially make my life very hard indeed.
Recently they sent me a little card reader. If I want to transfer money online I have to use this, in conjunction with my ATM card, to generate a code. Fine and secure.
Problem: when travelling, I take two cashcards – one for Nationwide (free withdrawals) and one for emergencies (Lloyds TSB). When in Vietnam a year or so ago, my Nationwide card was nicked along with the rest of my wallet contents. A pain in the bum, but all I had to do was pop online, transfer some funds to the Lloyds account and 3 days later I could withdraw cash from there.
Can we see a problem? The time when I’d need to transfer money – when I’d lost the Nationwide card – I now need the damn card to perform the transfer… There’s no option with this card reader. They send you it even though you’ve not requested it and then you have to use it. I think I may get in touch and ask them what I’m supposed to do int he situation listed.
Actually, I also need to try and find my Lloyds bank card. Eek.
