So.
So!!!
I had a dance.
With a former tenant.
I owe her money.
She "found out" after over a year.
After a longer journey on the phone it turned out she owes ME money. It was just a bit, but grab my "pride" - I NEVER EVER owed ANYONE any money!!!
NEVER!!!
Back and forth, blabla, I wanna check if she sent the money. That she owes me.
My bank: (sits in Frankfurt - endlessly away!) - "We only do business via smartphone now."
OK. google play store, app. No.
I get a "No".
My Smartphone I bought in Perth and Australia is NOT on their list.
GPS, hello?!
My HUAWEI is old, the battery runs empty quickly, so - Ingo offered me his German phone!, but I want my bank-business on my own...
...I got a new, GERMAN cheapy smartphone that runs a lille longer, too, right.
No QR-code anymore, they changed that.
Loooong process.
They send an SMS that never arrived.
I tried twice.
Then I needed to give confirmation via a number from...
Which I really found. In time, too.
I am not patient.
New password with numbers.
"Please do not use 123456..." the rest I could not read as this was programmed for a tablet.
For crying out loud!!!
Like @ Blogger!!!
I manage OK.
The systems offers me...
Guess?
Right!
The Australian HUAWEI!! Or Ingo´s?!
OH BOY.
I need to pay for the new tenant - her huge blind broke down, some whopping € 3000 + for the repair.
I somehow manage to get through this process and really get into my account, do you have IBAN, too???
Loooong ... long. You start with "DE" (for "Germany", DEutschland) and then have 18 numbers you have to type in.
18. Eighteen.
Blablabla. They want an E2E-reference.
I do not find that in the paper and think, huh, maybe with the PC?
Wrong PW, right one...
You know this?
It´s an Ad from the 70´s, the HB-man, I felt like that (just I do not smoke. He does not speak German it´s just freaky mumbling of frustration....)
They let me do the idiot-stuff at the PC, yipeee!
But they still want that reference thingy.
I call the company. Let it ring endlessly.
No one there.
I try again. Busy.
Give them time. Busy. Repeat.
Finally wrote an e-mail and asked for confirmation on that.
BY GOLLY!!
The world runs mad and STUPID in so many ways.
I tried again calling - reckon they blocked me.
There are days and there are days.
Don´t come near me.
I do not smoke, I might simply HIT you!!!!
Got through to my PC, put in ALL data, finally, after-... blabla, I am to confirm via smartphone. Which tells I´m logged out.
In the end I managed.
Don´t talk bad about Blogger. My bank is EVEN.WORSE!!!
How about yours?
Henry 🦁
That is their logo.
They must know why.
Why I stay? Costs: Zero.
Rant over. And this (part II) before it´s even 06:00 am!!!
9 comments:
Holy Bananas! What a stuff up.
I do all my banking on my laptop, for years now, whenever I get a bill, I open my account page and pay it there. I refuse to have banking on my phone, in case it gets lost or stolen, then any hacker can work it out and get my money.
YES!!!! Plus... my fingers aren´t that huge, but... on the phone you have a high chance to type wrong with those DARN 18 numbers!
Eye- and brain-wise I think I´m still "young".
What do you do if you´ve lost one or both?!!!
Drive to Frankfurt every time?! Holy moly.
In the end I think I even laughed.
What a headache.
...we have ING here too, what a strange name!
Sorry too many tyops. here we go again:
I only do banking in person or via PC. I do not even own a smartphone. Our bank is not too bad actually, but when they need an SMS-number confirmation, I go "No way!" and let hubby do it.
I thougth you stayed in that bank because of their logo ;)
No Captchas today :)
That amount of money for blinds sounds like alot - I was thinking ouch! Hope that you get paid back what you are owed.
I don't do banking on my phone, on my PC. Several years ago my bank close all their locations on the coast. So the nearest bank is 100 miles away. So thank goodness for online banking.
William, it was rather SCREAMING ;-)
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Tom, I have no idea and am too mad to try and find out!
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Charlotte, I have an smartphone just because that was the only way to be in contact with friends when being in Perth. And now to WhatsApp my T, MIL, Bro and Niece.
And darn ING-bank.
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Amy, yes, it is crazy. It´s a penthouse-condo, hence lots of wind. I wanted a proper solution, otherwise you have the same trouble every year... Having tenants is no fun. You´re always the one who has to take care and mostly also pay.
Only stuff less than €100 goes to the tenant.
Germany...
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Nicole, I .... have no idea where to go. Maybe leave THIS Henry.
I just got my first smart phone and am trying to figure out how to use it! So far, it's not synching with my email and using it for the blog seems silly when the computer is so fast and easy. But at least I have unlimited talk and text time and that's good. And I can take pix on the spur of the moment. All a plus. I'll learn. Eventually!
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