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Richard

Richard — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Make a mistake in their favour and they don’t pay any extra interest or for the cost to the consumer to fix the problem - but when they cock up they don’t want us to get away with it. I’m with you Oliver & AndrewC - this is just a cost of doing business poorly without due care and attention. If the banks can’t perform properly then they have no business telling others to.

Desirae

Desirae — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I’d say take what you can get, banks only rip you off anyway..LOL i think it’s funny even though i couldn’t do it myself but it’s still funny...

Yash

Yash — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I cannot believe the attitude of the idiots here. These people have stolen what is effectively deposits of hard kiwi savers. They will be found and they should be punished

Rikki

Rikki — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

If someone makes a mistake it is that somebody’s responsibility to learn from it, and fix it so that it doesn’t happen again. A mistake or an error is something you technically cannot take back. Why are the lucky people being targeted here, why isn’t the person who made the mistake being targeted.

Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday news tells us that banks took almost $11 billion last year in just fees, Good on the couple. I wish I could do the same.

Shameem

Shameem — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

They should return the money couple years later, just as the banks do when they accidentally take peoples money...

Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It’s interesting how people appear to feel that because it was the Banks fault that it ok for these them to take it, I am sure it would be a different story if the money was meant to go into their account & ended up somewhere else, they would scream blue murder..

Binoli

Binoli — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t believe everyone is supporting these people. Whether the bank made the error or not, this is stealing!

Marie Hazledine-Barber

Marie Hazledine-Barber — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

As the week unfolds on this story an elderly woman had her Westpac account frozen when the bank put her into one hundred million dollars overdrawn she was unable to pay for her groceries or petrol.

That is until Westpac were able to sort out the error. No I agree to take the money is wrong however the grief banks cause,with errors, corrupt behavior, lack of ability to negotiate, investment errors the list goes on.

New Zealanders were encouraged to save, invest their money and many did. We had the National Superannuation fund, then the Consolidated Fund, now Kiwi Saver, where has all the money gone?

Encouraged to use investment portfolios, or the banks guidance no wonder investments have collapsed, property markets down turn, for the lack of due diligence as the careless and greedy plunder ordinary citizens.

Marie Hazledine-Barber

Marie Hazledine-Barber — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

P.S I have to add that the mention of the poor woman unable to buy her groceries or pay for petrol is only one of many stories of major errors by Westpac that has unfolded in New Zealand this week, told by ordinary citizens. This seems to have given a voice to those who have been silent and tried to deal with devastating issues alone.