
Nationwide Internet Banking www.nationwide.co.uk
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Nationwide Internet Banking www.nationwide.co.uk

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Dreadful Customer Service
Their customer service has hit a new low. The staff are rude and have no empathy. I have been with nationwide for about 35 years and have had many, many different accounts with them, including current accounts and credit cards, but they show me no loyalty at all. I looked for a tiny bit of goodwill from then when I asked for a refund for a charge they made. They, quite rudely, point blank refused, then acted like robots when I called, just regurgitating and repeating their company policy. I complained about the treatment and was shocked by their response. They dismissed my complaint in an instant. What has completely irritated me is that they then emailed and rang me several times saying they were going to close my complaint. When I spoke to them they were rude, aggressive and confrontational. However, each time they did not send a closure letter as they said, instead they sent a letter saying they had received my complaint and would be in touch soon. This would have cost them far in excess of the refund I asked for. They do not know what they are doing and are getting worse every day.
When I asked why I was not given the Fairer Share Payment last year they said I did not “contribute to their sustainability and success”. Charming! They said I am not a customer who has “a deeper relationship with them”, and I did not “use them for my most important everyday financial needs”. This is absolute rubbish! Up to this time my husband and I had used them for everything.
As a direct result of their pettiness and dreadful customer services we have now pulled all of our accounts and moved our money elsewhere - we will now happily add to the sustainability and success of another bank. They should listed to customer feedback or they will lose many more unhappy customers.
Online Savings Account
Have been trying to open an online savings account for 6 weeks.Account open but not showing for online banking. Nationwide have still not resolved problem.Have contacted them many times calling at the branch,phone & online.This has now gone to their complaints dept to try & resolve.
Pretty Good Experience In General
I joined this bank about two years ago. I have had no bad experiences, and a few good ones.
I have transferred money to accounts both in the UK and abroad without hitch.
I did have slight difficulties recently in setting up their app (I had previously used the card reader method, which is simple to use) but during a short visit to my local branch a most helpful member of staff sorted it all out in a few minutes. I also enquired about acquiring a credit card: because the branch was busy: I was able to make an appointment at a time concenient to me. Some banks (eg Metro) would not offer an appointment but would require you to wait in a queue, perhaps for up to two hours!
All in all, pretty good: by to-day's declining standards out of this world!
Pretty Good Experience In General
I joined this bank about two years ago. I have had no bad experiences, and a few good ones.
I have transferred money to accounts both in the UK and abroad without hitch.
I did have slight difficulties recently in setting up their app (I had previously used the card reader method, which is simple to use) but during a short visit to my local branch a most helpful member of staff sorted it all out in a few minutes. I also enquired about acquiring a credit card: because the branch was busy: I was able to make an appointment at a time concenient to me. Some banks (eg Metro) would not offer an appointment but would require you to wait in a queue, perhaps for up to two hours!
All in all, pretty good: by to-day's declining standards out of this world!
I Didn't Cry Enough, Apparently
Having just registered the death of my husband I visited our local Nationwide branch where he held his account. Queued ages and while finally talking to the adviser she said she was surprised I did not seem too upset. There is loads of admin to do following a partner's death and holding everything together is the only way to make it doable. How would she have felt if I had openly wept in her open front lobby. There was no private room available, apparently. I do plenty of grieving in the privacy of my own home. I had been wondering whether to move my own accounts from Smile to Nationwide but having read the reviews of Nationwide internet banking it seems better to forgo a bit of interest and stay with the amazing, easy to use and incredibly fast Smile internet system. It is straightforward and has never let me down. Once probate is through I can't wait to move everything from the Nationwide to another bank.
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Internet Banking Is Always Down!
Every time I need to use my E-savings the web banking has let me down every time! Their planned online maintinence times always run by far longer than stated, so Nationwide have quite literally 'Stiched me up' on several occasions. As its the only way to acess te E-savings account they should simply not offer services that they can't provide sufficiently. Extremely annoyed with Nationwide!
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Painful!
There are so many different bits of paper with bits of data on, none of which are clearly marked and explained. For the once a year I use my ISA account, I inevitably forget the difference between; a pin number, passnumber, memorable data (with no hints given online, such as mothers maiden name), the customer number, the account number.
It's so user unfriendly. So after failing on-line, you ring them up. You rightly give your name, DOB and address but because you can't remember the exact balance and the date you opened the account (sometime in 12 years ago!), you fail the security and have to spend a Saturday queuing in the branch. Nightmare!
Nationwide sucks and is a small time member of the banking community, run by yocals from the countryside. Try someone better known.
The proliferation of passwords, PINs, memorable names etc has become ridiculous. We are advised (1) not to write down this information. (2) To use different names and numbers for different organisations. Given that one may need to set up this nonsense for a number of uses, the amount of data one needs to memorise becomes impossible. The computer nerds who devise all this garbage need to get out more: by doing so they may even find girlfriends for the first time in their miserable lives!
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It Stresses Me Out!
I have a number of accounts with Nationwide and its always a pain trying to go though all the security procedures and codes that they use, . I was trying to make a payment from a CashBuilder account to an external bank and it automatically selects another card because the Cashbuilder cannot do external bank transfers! There is no error message about this or anything it just selects another account. The design of the interface is crep you cannot find things in a logical way. Only by selecting a card then the main menu again can you access the features for that card.
The card reader is another additional hindrance if you do not use the account very often because you have to write in each accounts PIN.
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Online Banking App
This app works fine on my iPhone but is extremely slow on my wife's iPad Air. They are both running ios7. Please fix.
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Did Not Work
u cant sign up for online banking it just says "We're sorry, there has been a technical error. Please try again."
no matter how many times i try it just gives me that error i wated a week tryed again nothing.... its hopeless
Q&A
What is the cost of a bank transfer to my grandchidren?