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| Thread ID: 99961 | 2009-05-21 07:39:00 | Would You Return It? | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 775662 | 2009-05-21 09:33:00 | One important issue that has yet to be addressed in the media is that Wespac bank is $10,000,000 short. What impact will that have on it's customers? |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 775663 | 2009-05-21 10:01:00 | Probally return after charging interest, transfer and paper fees. I recon you could get 30 to 40 grand out of them. i doubt that by law they would want everything from interest to everything back :angry |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 775664 | 2009-05-21 10:14:00 | $10 million is chickenfeed to a bank, pine-o-cleen . It's just numbers . My question is how the hell did they cash it up? Bearing in mind the largest denomination in Kiwi dollars is $100, that's one huge piece of luggage you'd need to carry all that cash in! And had it been transferred telegraphically, it would be easy to recover . How do you walk into your branch and say "I'd like to withdraw $6,000,000 in cash please?" No branch would carry that amount of cash (except maybe some of the larger branches in the main centres - the cost of carrying that amount of cash money is huge), especially in Rotorua! They'd have to order it in from the Reserve Bank . *** I was flatting with a Kiwi guy in London (20 something years ago), who received, every three months, a deposit in his NatWest account of three thousand pounds odd . He told the bank a number of times that it wasn't his, but they did nothing about it . Eventually he got fed up telling them and 'adopted' the 12-15000 pounds he'd recieved over 12 months or so and used it to travel around Europe . I guess it belonged to someone who thought his investment was compounding interest - but the bank obviously stuffed up . The bank eventually came knocking on our door for their money, but he was long gone . Never came back to NZ though, because he would have been arrested at the airport - living in Western Australia last I heard . . . . If it was me, I would give it back and hope (probably forlornly) that the bank was ethical enough to provide some sort of finders fee . . . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 775665 | 2009-05-21 10:19:00 | I'd still rather win Lotto. :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 775666 | 2009-05-21 10:27:00 | My thoughts on this are that if the bank had accidentally taken $10m from me (which incidentally I don't have), I would expect it to be given back to me. Therefore, if they accidentally gave me $10m, I would give it back to them. Here are the defferences: 1. You certainly don't have $10m; 2. The Bank certainly has much, much more than $10m The above 2 statements don't belong to the same category and therefore your 'answers' are irrelevant. :D:D |
bk T (215) | ||
| 775667 | 2009-05-21 10:32:00 | Maybe the bank will sue you for wasting their time / resources :thumbs: Ya lucky they don't boot you in the guts or send a couple of Westpac asian employees on an assassin mission. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 775668 | 2009-05-21 10:33:00 | Here are the defferences: 1. You certainly don't have $10m; 2. The Bank certainly has much, much more than $10m The above 2 statements don't belong to the same category and therefore your 'answers' are irrelevant. :D:D It's the principle though - if someone hits my car in a carpark, I would expect that the driver will leave a note with their contact details, and pay for the damage they caused. Likewise, if I were to accidentally damage someone's car, I would expect that I'd pay for the damage I cause. I guess it's a "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" scenario. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 775669 | 2009-05-21 10:36:00 | It's the principle though - if someone hits my car in a carpark, I would expect that the driver will leave a note with their contact details, and pay for the damage they caused. Likewise, if I were to accidentally damage someone's car, I would expect that I'd pay for the damage I cause. I guess it's a "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" scenario. Correct me if I am wrong but isn't it a condition of insurance companies to never admit your fault :confused: Insurance companies are the other evil industry. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 775670 | 2009-05-21 10:40:00 | I was flatting with a Kiwi guy in London (20 something years ago), who received, every three months, a deposit in his NatWest account of three thousand pounds odd . He told the bank a number of times that it wasn't his, but they did nothing about it . I had a similar situation in London in the '70s but for a lesser sum (under 1000 quid) . I went in straight away and told them it wasn't mine, but they did nothing, despite regular nagging . I even told the Manager but he didn't want to know, so in the end I used it to buy a VW Kombi to tour Europe, came back and sold it so that I could put the money back, told them again it wasn't mine and was again ignored (I suspect they had long-ago made good their customer's loss and didn't want to spill blood or start a witch hunt) and I even told them that I was soon going to close the account and leave the country . I still have it if they want it, but only at 1970's exchange rates . I kept the equivalent amount aside here in another account for several years but finally gave up . I guess good things can sometimes happen when idiots lose track of their funds, but I would never do a runner on $10m, honesty is the best policy and who wants to have to look over their shoulder for the rest of their life? Cheers Billy 8-{) :illogical |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 775671 | 2009-05-21 11:04:00 | Get the NZ SIS to track them down overseas and kill them. | prefect (6291) | ||
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