tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25688672.post3367296596898208936..comments2011-11-09T07:50:58.515-05:00Trygve Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15867120909059139662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25688672.post-51782000629723953832011-11-09T06:45:36.980-05:002011-11-09T06:45:36.980-05:00Haha...I hear you, Trygve. Rents in Oman aren&#39;t much better if you want a retail business. But that thing about the banks really strikes a chord: earlier this year or end of last, I had one small payment problem resulting in a late credit to my account and a rejected debit. <br /><br />Because my bank had (unknown to me) changed the way my (high-fees private banking) account was handled, the new people dealing with my account (who had never contacted me to notify me of the change), knew nothing about me, did not think to let me know by email or phone, and did not have any contact with the person who&#39;d managed my account for the last decade or so. What did they do? They closed my account. Completely. Paid off a small loan I had with them, cancelled all my cards, froze my account and moved me to their &quot;credit department&quot;. At the time, I was $10,000 in CREDIT!<br /><br />When I finally spoke to the people handling my account they didn&#39;t know either. They assumed it was an online banking problem as my account was apparently at a healthy balance. Only through the online banking folk did I find out that there was a &quot;tag on the account as inactive&quot;. It took me quite a while to get to the bottom of it. Eventually I spoke to someone in credit control who informed me they&#39;d taken most of my balance to settle the loan and closed my account for good, and asked where I would like the remaining balance transferred?<br /><br />I have banked with these people for over twenty years. Had cards, mortgages, loans, everything you normally would, from the same bank. I&#39;ve paid them literally thousands in fees. I&#39;ve dealt with the same person for years as a &quot;private banking customer&quot;. Suddenly they change their system, don&#39;t tell me, and close the account of a customer of more than two decades, who is ten grand in the black!<br /><br />No wonder these people need bailing out: with judgement like that - deliberately dumping their long term, profitable customers - it&#39;s not only the investment banking side that&#39;s run by idiots!<br /><br />OK, rant over...thanks!<br /><br />&#39;TLS&#39; :)The Linoleum Surferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00827051487800854552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25688672.post-67279209460633113852011-11-05T12:21:09.117-04:002011-11-05T12:21:09.117-04:00here are the WaterFalls at Wadi Darbat as a short videoSalalah Rainhttp://omanholiday.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/11/05/omans-wadi-darbat-waterfalls/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25688672.post-26233167330559571572011-11-05T10:32:58.217-04:002011-11-05T10:32:58.217-04:00Hello Trygve Harris.<br />I am a french artist and botanist from Paris and I enjoy following your blog.I am going to Doha for two weeks around Xmas to visit my son,and his Japanese wife.They are in Qatar for a couple of years. May be you know someone in Qatar interested like me in Nature/Art /Perfume that i would enjoy meeting?<br />Catherine;www.catherinewillis.comcatherine willishttp://www.catherinewillis.comnoreply@blogger.com