Catherine T.
One star is being very generous given…
One star is being very generous given the extraordinary incompetence and shocking contempt for longstanding customers exhibited by Santander. Moving a sum from Santander to another bank with a substantially better interest rate was a nightmare and involved my account being blocked and numerous phone calls, after waiting in queues for interminable amounts of time. The transaction EVENTUALLY went through after much perseverance. Another transaction to the SAME account has inexplicably met the same fate. However, this time the quite incredibly inept and powerless phone handlers, all working from home with no supervision or accountability apparently, have given me ever shifting and contradictory excuses as to why they are unable to unblock my account. Note that I am unable to access my OWN money with no end in sight to this debacle. Numerous fruitless calls and even broken promises of call backs from someone with the power to sort this out have got me no further forward, at a cost of whole days on the phone. All because I am trying to move my own hard earned money to a bank that can perform the most basic functions expected of it. Every procedure and process, read soundbite and inane response must surely have been designed to sicken and demoralise the customer. You have been warned, avoid Santander like a particularly virulent form of monkeypox



