# Banks

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When I first moved to Spain, I was with Bankinter, through Atlas.
 Unfortunately, their charges eventually peed me off so I changed to Bancaja who then changed to Bankia, they shut up shop and moved to Guardamar, rather inconvenient eh ?  then they introduced bank charges, even though my Pension was paid in there.
 So, off I went to Deutche Bank in La Marina to open an account....easy, yeah....easy NO.
 Half way through procedures, (I had all the relevant documents) I was told there was a problem !  I was told that because there were quite a few people with the same name as me, they needed to "check" me out !  Now i've never been in trouble, never owed money, not even had as much as a parking ticket in 50 yrs of driving. 
 TWO weeks later, still nothing, so I went to Santander, next door, and hey presto, they had a new client in less than an hour !
 It gave me great pleasure to go back into Deutche bank and tell them, they've missed out on many thousands of Euros, especially when my girlfriend sends over the proceeds from her house sale !
 Ha ha, oh yeah, and I get a free tablet thingy, as well as FREE Banking.