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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 12:26pm on 11/11/2008
I went to the trouble of finding the Halifax cheque book to pay the IKEA bill, and the guy in the Halifax said Oh sorry we're not in Bank Giro Credit. And everybody else would charge.
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posted by [identity profile] k425.livejournal.com at 12:56pm on 11/11/2008
I have never paid a bill like that in the bank except the old Mastercard because it was a Lloyds card.

Stick it in the post - or wait till I get home and we'll see if we can set up electronic transfer like we have with Egg and M&S.
 
posted by [identity profile] mhoulden.livejournal.com at 01:27pm on 11/11/2008
Didn't realize people still used bank giro credit at all. I'm tempted to suggest [livejournal.com profile] oldbloke might like to pay by postal order.
 
posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 01:30pm on 11/11/2008
I've stuck with handing over a bill and a cheque in a bank branch as I get a nice stamped piece of paper proving I paid it that way.
I assume there's something odd about either the Halifax or IKEA - or both.
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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 02:47pm on 11/11/2008
there's something odd about either the Halifax or IKEA - or both

This
 
posted by [identity profile] g8bur.livejournal.com at 04:35pm on 11/11/2008
I've stuck with handing over a bill and a cheque in a bank branch as I get a nice stamped piece of paper proving I paid it that way.

I do that too, for the same reason, but using my debit card instead of a cheque - except for bills from BT, who dragooned their customers into setting up direct debits, with a fine of £18 per year for failing to do so (I cannot believe that it costs BT £18 extra per customer per year to accept payments in any other way).

Sometimes I pay at the Post Office using cash or cheque, which was still free to do the last time I did it that way.
 
posted by [identity profile] hoiho.livejournal.com at 01:10pm on 12/11/2008
I pay physical cash & cheques into my bank at the Post Office. Everything else I do online.

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