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Only in Ireland !!!!

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  • 19-02-2009 9:03am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭


    Reported in the Irish Times recently;

    Only in Ireland !!!!

    Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die! This is so priceless
    And so easy to see happening - customer service, being what it is today!

    A lady died this past September, and MBNA bank billed her for October and
    November for their annual service charges on her credit card, and Then added
    late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance that had been E0.00, now is somewhere around E60.00.

    A family member placed a call to the MBNA Bank:

    Family Member:
    'I am calling to tell you that she died in January.'

    MBNA:
    'The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply.'
    Family Member:
    'Maybe, you should turn it over to collections.'

    MBNA:
    'Since it is two months past due, it already has been.'

    Family Member:
    So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?'

    MBNA:
    'Either report her account to the frauds division or report her to The
    credit bureau, maybe both!'

    Family Member:
    'Do you think God will be mad at her?'
    MBNA:
    'Excuse me?'

    Family Member:
    'Did you just get what I was telling you . . The part about her Being dead?'

    MBNA:
    'Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor.'
    Supervisor gets on the phone:
    Family Member:
    'I'm calling to tell you, she died in January.'

    MBNA:
    'The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply.'
    Family Member:
    'You mean you want to collect from her estate?'

    MBNA:
    (Stammer) 'Are you her lawyer?'

    Family Member:
    'No, I'm her great nephew.'
    (Lawyer info given)

    MBNA:
    'Could you fax us a certificate of death?'
    Family Member:
    'Sure.'
    ( fax number is given )

    After they get the fax:

    MBNA:
    'Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I Can do to help.'

    Family Member:
    'Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing Her.
    I don't think she will care.'

    MBNA:
    'Well, the late fees and charges do still apply.'

    Family Member:
    'Would you like her new billing address?'
    MBNA:
    'That might help.'

    Family Member:
    ' Glasnevin Cemetry, Finglas Road , Dublin 11, Ireland , Plot Number
    1049.'

    MBNA:
    'Sir, that's a cemetery!'

    Family Member:
    'Well, what the **** do you do with dead people on your planet?'

    MBNA were not available for comment when a reporter from the Irish Times rang.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    MBNA

    Mensa Brain Not Applicable :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    dh0661 wrote: »
    MBNA

    Mensa Brain Not Applicable :rolleyes:

    I'm sorry, but that's probably THE least intelligent bacrynom I've ever heard. No offense.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    Neesa wrote: »
    I'm sorry, but that's probably THE least intelligent bacrynom I've ever heard. No offense.

    No offence taken - I presume you mean backronym :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭Wagon


    Bitter she didn't think of it first. I love the citizen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭Jay D


    A lady died this past September, and MBNA bank billed her for October and
    November for their annual service charges on her credit card, and Then added
    late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance that had been E0.00, now is somewhere around E60.00.

    A family member placed a call to the MBNA Bank:

    Family Member:
    'I am calling to tell you that she died in January.'

    ??

    Annual service charges?? Is that the tax thing that comes around April or something? This story smells fishy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭shqipshume


    Jay D wrote: »
    ??

    Annual service charges?? Is that the tax thing that comes around April or something? This story smells fishy.

    Hahah nice catch :D

    But yep i would believe that story they would follow you to get 50 cent in this fricken country :rolleyes:


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