Comments on: The Trials and Tribulations Of Returning to Work!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:46:59 +0000

Hey Ty, In my case I have “spare money” that I don’t want to change into dollars because of the dreadful exchange rate at the moment. I’ll be sitting on it until things get better. And 60 days clearing time on top of the 2 months to get funds from networks – I’d go bust! LOL.

By: Tye

Tye — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:41:05 +0000

Hey Kirsty – I just pay foreign cheques into my normal account… it takes 60 days or so before funds are available – but after the first 2 months you don’t notice. It costs me $16 for 3 cheques with St George

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:12:04 +0000

Urgh, we all love the banks and their beaureaucracy don’t we? I realised this morning that should I wish to withdraw money from my account I will need to ring their international services department. I have not yet been furnished with that information and doubt that popping into my branch to ask is the way forward. Mind you, I might just nip in and do that at 4.55PM one day this week

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:51:18 +0000

Hi Kirsty,

Banks… I wanted to set-up another business account with a bank I’d been with for 28 years. The manager was really apologetic but he had to go through the process – he even asked me if I was a terrorist or had any intentions of using the account for laundering money – boy they really know how to catch you out.

I suppose all affiliates have a business account and pay tax. Dont they?

I’ve only recently started to take AM seriously and I’m following your feed. Good luck in Australia.

Chris

By: Rich Pargeter

Rich Pargeter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:13:11 +0000

Ah Kirsty, the pains of Australian banks.
The magic words to use are “banking ombudsman” and they suddenly become very efficient and work out what they should be doing in the first place.

By: Dan Harrison

Dan Harrison — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:59:18 +0000

Sadly I get this level of hassle with most banks, even for their (supposedly) day-to-day business. One bank lost £10k of my life savings, then claimed they needed 60 days to resolve the issue and refused to give me updates.

Dan
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.

By: Stuart Dykes

Stuart Dykes — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:26:58 +0000

At least you got to talk to someone face to face. Back in the uk, you would be told “we are unable to deal with your enquiry in branch,” and then would be faced with a call to the dreadful call centers.

Its actually painfull.

By: Lammo

Lammo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:58:20 +0000

lol.. reminds me of the “fun” I used to have trying to pay USD cheques from CJ into my local branch of HSBC – “The World’s local bank” had never seen a foreign cheque before it would seem!