From: Phil Deane 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Building Society Not in Members Interests
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:36:55 +0100

Jane Tweedynn wrote:

> I'm a little annoyed.  I last moved my mortgage from a building society to
> my current building society because they would not let me have a mortgage
> that was for new customers.  I said sod it and moved building societies.
> 
> Now when i am looking to remortgage again this building society has two
> different rates for a product i want, one for home movers and the other
> for
> everyone else.  Well i don't want to fund someone else's mortgage.
> 
> If this was a bank i would accept defeat but this being a building society
> where the society is run for the benefit of its members i don't believe
> the other members like me would accept this.
> 
> So how do i go about getting the building society to stop discriminating
> against existing customers.  I don't want to move, i want the society to
> change.

Think the other members always want you to have a good deal, and therefore
reduce their profits?

Ask before you move to a lender if they have a non discriminatory remortgage
service for existing customers.

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Phil Deane
http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk