Local Shops Will Die - Should I Be Bothered?

Ducbird · Sep 13, 2020

PerryL said: ↑

Another local shop!

The new NOCO charger that has been supplied is really a Euro model. As such, it come with a Euro 2 pin plug. So, I phone and visit my local hardware shop (I feel quite sorry for them now) and they have 2 pin to 3 pin adapters with a 1 amp fuse. No good to me as the thing can draw 7.3 amps! And the 1 amp fuse is smaller than an ordinary one, so you can't just replace it with a 13 amp job.

In the shop, I woke up but did not smell the coffee. If I did, then I would of stayed for one! I bought a normal 13 amp plug and then swapped the whole 2-pin Euro jobby. After all, we are leaving the EU so feck their stupid 2 pin plugs! Now, it is rewired with a 13 amp plug and so Boris would approve!

Buying from Amazon for a 1 amp jobby would of been disastrous!

And banking! I had to go all the way to Stroud today to pay in a couple of cheques. HSBC have got it so wrong. They want to shut branches and get everyone doing their banking on-line. Net result is that the Stroud branch which is now the only one for miles is full of people not doing any banking but trying to get the answers to on-line problems. They are very hot on security resulting in if you get any security question wrong they block your account. And you have to visit a branch (if you can find one) to get it sorted out.

I told my taxi driver about this farce and how we are caught as Berkeley has no banks, now. Being a taxi driver, he often needs to visit a branch to pay in cash. He banks with the Co-Op and told me that he can do most things at the local Post Office. That's it! I am going to move my banking to the Co-Op!

Yes, if they may close the Post Office one day, then I will be fecked.... but there are more Post Offices around than banks
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I can pay cheques in on my phone banking now
You just take a pic of it and send it

Ducbird · Sep 13, 2020

PerryL said: ↑

Lloyds won! Because I have so many switches potentially going on, this one might run in to trouble BUT they are head and shoulders above the rest (I didn't try Barclays, though). Nat West were obsessed with seeing some id (even though I am switching, for crying out loud!). Nat West rejected my passport and driving license, so feck 'em.

Switching every every year? Sod that! However I end up with then that will be that Forever! Given up giving a feck about the Post Office. I know that Lloyds have branches in towns close to me -within cycling distance - if I could get on a push bike! Now Amazon are sending me emails about electric bikes based on my browsing history rather than women's' incontinence pants or knitting, so things must be looking up!
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I rate Lloyd’s

Jez900ie · Sep 13, 2020

Ducbird said: ↑

I rate Lloyd’s
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I've had no problems with them either. The app is straight forward to use and with fingerprint access theres no need to work out the fourth letter, eighth letter and second letter from those crazy passwords!

Nelson · Sep 28, 2020

Sadly most town centres are now populated by ne'er-do-wells in stained tracky bottoms cruising (face in phone) from £1 shop to Greggs and on to the next £1 shop.
Nuke 'em from orbit.

fight the streets fmd · Sep 28, 2020

PerryL said: ↑

Another local shop!

The new NOCO charger that has been supplied is really a Euro model. As such, it come with a Euro 2 pin plug. So, I phone and visit my local hardware shop (I feel quite sorry for them now) and they have 2 pin to 3 pin adapters with a 1 amp fuse. No good to me as the thing can draw 7.3 amps! And the 1 amp fuse is smaller than an ordinary one, so you can't just replace it with a 13 amp job.

In the shop, I woke up but did not smell the coffee. If I did, then I would of stayed for one! I bought a normal 13 amp plug and then swapped the whole 2-pin Euro jobby. After all, we are leaving the EU so feck their stupid 2 pin plugs! Now, it is rewired with a 13 amp plug and so Boris would approve!

Buying from Amazon for a 1 amp jobby would of been disastrous!

And banking! I had to go all the way to Stroud today to pay in a couple of cheques. HSBC have got it so wrong. They want to shut branches and get everyone doing their banking on-line. Net result is that the Stroud branch which is now the only one for miles is full of people not doing any banking but trying to get the answers to on-line problems. They are very hot on security resulting in if you get any security question wrong they block your account. And you have to visit a branch (if you can find one) to get it sorted out.

I told my taxi driver about this farce and how we are caught as Berkeley has no banks, now. Being a taxi driver, he often needs to visit a branch to pay in cash. He banks with the Co-Op and told me that he can do most things at the local Post Office. That's it! I am going to move my banking to the Co-Op!

Yes, if they may close the Post Office one day, then I will be fecked.... but there are more Post Offices around than banks
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As a HSBC customer you can do a lot of your banking requirements through your local post office also paying in cheques....., the post office has a contract with a number of banks to enable people in rural places with no banks to use the post offices

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