My bank’s website

Proudly pro­claims:

St.George reports record interim profit of $502 mil­lion, up 11.8%

Mean­while, I get charged $4.50 for using a non-St. George ATM.

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posted on Thursday, May 4th, 2006 at 1:41 pm by Josh, filed under General.

10 Responses to “My bank’s website”

  1. dale says:

    Woo! Up go my shares ;)

    But $4.50! DAMN! Com­mon­wealth charge $1.50 and they’ve finally removed all 3rd net­bank trans­fer costs.

  2. dale says:

    P.S Looks like the time on your site is 1 hour off.

  3. Josh says:

    Fixz0red. Com­ments will be screwy for the next hour because I can’t be both­ered adjusting.

  4. mark says:

    i just had a look at the pho­tos from erins party…

    it seems you cred­ited me with all the bad pho­tos *glares*

    (i took some try­ing to fig­ure out the cam­era and im pretty sure budd/selo/someone took some as well)

    *shakes fist*

  5. kitten says:

    Ahh, all the big banks in the UK (and in many parts of Europe) have realised that they dont need to charge you for using enemy ATM’s as long as they have your cus­tom. So I can use my HSBC card in pretty much any ATM which (exclud­ing Hal­i­fax and a few minor Link ones) and not get charged a euro­cent, a cent or even a penny for tak­ing my money out. Plus my account has no fees even though I’m not a stu­dent and I even get an overdraw!

    Mean while all the banks and still post­ing prof­its head­ing up towards a bil­lion pounds!

  6. Nicko says:

    Yeah that’s it, no atm charges.

  7. Josh says:

    Mmm. Cor­rec­tion: I was wrong about ATM charges. Appar­ently they lump them together on your bills, so that was three x 1.50. Phew!

    Mark… I remem­bered giv­ing you the cam­era when peo­ple went inside, and just added that credit to all until I came across one I remem­bered tak­ing :P Could have been other peo­ple too I guess :)

  8. swylie says:

    If you have a Multi Access card on yourSt George account you can choose “credit” from third party ATMs and there are no trans­ac­tion fees

  9. Josh says:

    Oh really? That’s pretty cool. I didn’t think you could use that in ATMs… I knew about it as an EFTPOS alter­na­tive (and have been using it that way, that’s half the rea­son I went to St George in the first place!) that was free, but wasn’t aware you could get cash out of ATMs on credit. Still, if that’s pos­si­ble, awe­some­ness! Thanks :D

  10. dale says:

    Make sure your bank doesn’t charge you for doing that though. Com­mon­wealth charges 17 – 18% if you with­draw money off your credit card.

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