From: John Boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Re: The £17,000 loan that mounted into a debt of £116,000
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:00:57 +0100
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In message <%j0ui.5362$mZ5.2420@newsfe6-win.ntli.net>, Robin T Cox 
 writes
>As this article well illustrates.
>
>Therefore potential customers should treat banks with great suspicion. The
>days when you could trust your friendly neighbourhood bank to look after
>your interests are most certainly long over.

Agreed. It used to be deemed to clever to say 'all my insurance is with 
my bank' usually with a cozy smug grin and the utterer thought he was 
being quite clever. Now it just indicates a fool. With some clearing 
bank cashiers having to phone in their sales figures twice daily, and 
with IT systems that tell the cashier what to flog to each customer 
based on their credit score and the databases other knowledge of the 
behaviour of that particular client it is highly unlikely that the 
customer is advised what is best for him.
-- 
John Boyle