Sabadell Bank - After the changeover!
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:48 pm
Hi,
I have put this as an answer in another topic but thought it would help to make it a separate topic too;
We went to Sabadell bank in Quesada today and the lady we spoke to was very helpful. She spoke good English and explained things to us and cleared up a few misunderstandings.
Apparently, she said, the 'Sepa' direct Debit, which we thought was to pay for the Non-Residence tax form was not to do with that, it was the last direct debit sent out during the changeover by the previous bank, in our case it was an Iberdrola payment, for others it may be something else.
We asked about charges on the account and she confirmed that there is only the quarterly maintenance charge and the one off annual charge for our debit cards and the Non Residents declaration form charge of 25 euro per person every two years.
She also confirmed the minimum balance to keep in the account, to not incur any other charges, is 150 euros.
Even though our main branch is in Torrevieja, she also confirmed that it's not worth changing branches as we can use any branch for most things. For any queries on the actual account or for getting money out over the counter you need to show your password though. For general questions, as we had today, they don't need a passport but we showed our debit cards.
The bank has a 'take a ticket' to be seen system, like most banks have here, and it worked well today even though there was a big queue when we went in. They had four desks to go to be seen.
All in all we were very impressed with the service at the counter. The ATM is easy to use and understand too and English can be selected with no problem.
As the maintenance fees are all we will be paying (currently on our joint account we are paying 3.33 euros per month) plus the every two year charge for the non - residents tax declaration, above what we were paying with our previous bank, I think we will stay with Sabadell. They do appear to be a long standing trusted bank and hopefully not so liable to have problems like the other banks in Spain have had.
Hope this helps anyone wondering what to do after this changeover.
Jan
Edited by Jan on the 29/04/2014 at 13.26
I have put this as an answer in another topic but thought it would help to make it a separate topic too;
We went to Sabadell bank in Quesada today and the lady we spoke to was very helpful. She spoke good English and explained things to us and cleared up a few misunderstandings.
Apparently, she said, the 'Sepa' direct Debit, which we thought was to pay for the Non-Residence tax form was not to do with that, it was the last direct debit sent out during the changeover by the previous bank, in our case it was an Iberdrola payment, for others it may be something else.
We asked about charges on the account and she confirmed that there is only the quarterly maintenance charge and the one off annual charge for our debit cards and the Non Residents declaration form charge of 25 euro per person every two years.
She also confirmed the minimum balance to keep in the account, to not incur any other charges, is 150 euros.
Even though our main branch is in Torrevieja, she also confirmed that it's not worth changing branches as we can use any branch for most things. For any queries on the actual account or for getting money out over the counter you need to show your password though. For general questions, as we had today, they don't need a passport but we showed our debit cards.
The bank has a 'take a ticket' to be seen system, like most banks have here, and it worked well today even though there was a big queue when we went in. They had four desks to go to be seen.
All in all we were very impressed with the service at the counter. The ATM is easy to use and understand too and English can be selected with no problem.
As the maintenance fees are all we will be paying (currently on our joint account we are paying 3.33 euros per month) plus the every two year charge for the non - residents tax declaration, above what we were paying with our previous bank, I think we will stay with Sabadell. They do appear to be a long standing trusted bank and hopefully not so liable to have problems like the other banks in Spain have had.
Hope this helps anyone wondering what to do after this changeover.
Jan
Edited by Jan on the 29/04/2014 at 13.26