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Subject: Re: Bank carges in the Eurozone Posted on: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:50:42 +0000 (UTC)

I have transferred 10.000 EUR from my Italian bank to my French bank
without charge.
Then transferred 50.000 EUR from my Belgian account to my French bank
at no charge.
The French bank to issue a cashier check for 56.000 EUR charged 15
EUR!

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:30:34 +0200, Martin wrote:

>After being charged EUR 13 (transfer+correspondence) to transfer EUR 10 to
>Berlin I have been doing some checking
>
>a) the charge is contrary to the Fortis/ABN Amro's tariffs
>b)There is no mention of correspondence charges in the tariffs, nor have we had
>any correspondence from the bank
>c) They made the same charges in 2007 and we didn't spot it
>d) There was no charge in 2006
>e) When I recently transferred EUR 1300 to a UK bank neither bank added charges
>and the receiving bank used the current exchange rate
>
>If I complain about a) will they notice e)
>
>Do we really have to check that big banks haven't got mistakes in their
>software.